How to Fix an Ignitor
- 1). Open the gas oven door, then lift up and pull out the oven's base. Loosen and remove the screws holding the burner cover in place, using a screwdriver, to gain access to the igniter located underneath. For heaters, slide open the heater's cover to expose the igniter inside. Models differ, but the igniter is generally at the base of the heater.
- 2). Turn on the oven/heater. If the igniter glows only with a small red flame, or you smell of gas, the igniter is faulty. Replace it. Also, if the igniter takes more than two minutes to start glowing -- even with a healthy flame -- replace it..
- 3). Turn off the gas and power to the oven/heater. Pull the igniter's plastic plug from its small socket, or unscrew and remove the two ceramic wire nuts from the ends of the igniter wires. Loosen and remove the screws holding the igniter in place, using the screwdriver, and remove the igniter.
- 4). Position the new igniter in place, then secure its screws with the screwdriver. Push the igniter's plastic plug into the socket, or hold either igniter wire end to either oven/heater wire end, and screw on the ceramic nuts. Reposition the oven's base and close the oven door, or slide closed the heater's cover. Turn the gas and power supply on.
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