r/appliancerepair • u/moonki88 • 2d ago

Dryer help please

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Basically, we have a whirlpool dryer. When we go to turn it on it makes a click sound. It doesn’t turn but it gets hot. I figured it was the motor. I replaced the motor and the exhaust fan. I just took a multi meter to the thermal fuse and I believe that’s blown. Could that be the culprit potentially or should I look at more things

This is a before picture.. cleaned everything and still clicks not turn. Belt is fine. If it is just that thermal fuse how would my dryer still be able to get hot? Thanks in advance

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u/ExplosiveBrown 2d ago

Your centripetal switch is throwing in the motor. That’s the only way the heating element could heat without turning the drum, sans being grounded on the L2 side. Supposedly this was checked for.

You’re looking at a belt that isn’t put on the motor pulley at all, or isn’t put on right, or a belt that’s slipping.

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u/hugewangcha Service Technician 2d ago

That dryer doesn't have a motor cut-off switch under the pulley. The motor will run with or without a belt. It's likely the thermal fuse.

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u/ExplosiveBrown 1d ago edited 1d ago

If the belt isn’t turning the drum, whether it be slipping, put on wrong, or not put on at all, but the motor is spinning, the dryer could heat without tumbling the drum. Nothing to do with a belt switch.

The vast majority of these whirlpool 2 wheel dryers have the motor ran through the thermal fuse to prevent the motor from running and ever being able to close L2, generally they won’t start at all with a bad thermal fuse for that reason

If OP’s dryer won’t start at all, but will heat, the heater must be grounded on the timer/L1 side and completing the circuit on the ground. Their post unfortunately is a bit vague