I literally love you. You are an angel. I was so frustrated. Kept thinking I can’t believe the fuses aren’t easier to access. I should be able to do this. I just called a repair guy because I didn’t want to take the stupid drum off just to test the thermal fuse, as the other videos showed. Was going to be at least $200 to repair just the fuse. More if it’s the control board. I’m going to say a prayers this works.
You can get the entire replacement kit for that dryer for like $50.00 off of Amazon. I know this for a fact because I have done just that for my red LG Steam mate dryer about 16 months ago! Also in the cace if you have to replace the heating element, then yes you have to disable the entire thing because of the single screw in the very front of the driver CV that's is holding the entire assembly down in the front of the platform is in accessible otherwise!
THIS is a perfect example of why I started a RU-vid channel! How to and tricks to help people..... I have found so much info that helped me fix or maintain or improve scything I come across I started to basically catalog a HOW TO and do videos on all kinds of things that as I come across can help others. Thanks for sharing looks like a good hack
Thanks for the video it helped! A few notes.. 1) The thermal fuse only causes lack of heat, power still works to the rest of unit. 2) It's resettable. Push the small black button in the middle. Likely the lint trap or vent was clogged which suffocates the heater system and causes it to trip. You likely don't even need a new one.
Not only was there a knockout in the other side but it looks like there was a knockout in the bottom of the dryer as well... So if you wanted to turn it and go through the floor....
one good reason for taking apart the dryer is to clean it while it's apart, which is the number one reason why it gets to hot to trip the thermal fuse, but this is a good short cut for quick fix
@@RobertMoseley I work on these for a living. You don't have to take off the inner plate with rollers or the drum, but it certainly makes it easier. I can disassemble an LG dryer in a couple of minutes, this entire job 10 minutes. But I've done hundreds of them, perhaps unfair for me to say it's easy... but you definitely did it the hard way.
@@RobertMoseleyyes. You are only able to get one arm in, and you can only reach two of the four thermal components in your dryer. I didn't watch the whole video but there's no way you're going to get two arms in there with meter leads to test stuff, and you're going to cut yourself up trying. I enjoy your channel very much! However this video has potential to send people down the wrong path and probably injuring themselves trying to fix their dryers. If this was really a shortcut, technicians would be doing it and I wouldn't have written any comment.
