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title: "Gas dryer igniter and valve repair"
description: "Frigidaire gas dryer igniter and valve repair — a gas dryer that tumbles cold, or one that lights and goes out again after a few seconds."
url: "https://frigidairemiami.support/services/gas-dryer-igniter-and-valve-repair/"
date_modified: "2026-09-09"
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# Frigidaire gas dryer igniter and valve repair

### It lights, runs, and goes out: that sequence is the diagnosis

A gas dryer that heats for a few minutes and then tumbles cold is describing its own problem. The igniter glows, the flame sensor confirms it, the valve opens — and if any one of those three stops agreeing, the burner shuts down and tries again, giving a machine that is warm at the start of a cycle and cold at the end. Nothing here is guessed at: the coils are measured, the sensor is tested cold and hot, and the gas connection is leak-checked before we hand the machine back.

What this involves

Igniter, flame sensor, coils, valve — one sequence, four distinct failures

Lighting then dropping out is usually the sensor or the coils, not the igniter

Finished with proper gas checks, every time

Watch a light-off cycle

Whether the igniter glows, whether the valve opens, and how long the flame stays. This is the diagnosis, and it takes one cycle.

Test the igniter and the sensor cold

Resistance on both. A cracked igniter glows and never gets hot enough for the sensor to let the valve open.

Check the coils under power

Coils that work cold and drop out warm are a classic and produce the 'lights then goes out' complaint exactly.

Inspect the burner and the air path

Lint in the burner housing changes the flame and trips the safeties.

Leak-check and verify

Every joint disturbed is checked, and the machine runs a full heat cycle before we go.

### Is a dryer that keeps going out dangerous to keep using?

The safety circuit is doing its job, which is the reassuring part — the burner is shutting down rather than filling the drum with unburned gas. It should still be repaired rather than lived with, and any smell of gas means stopping and calling the utility first.

### The igniter glows but the burner never lights. What is that?

It means the ignition half is working and the fuel half is not, so the valve coils or the sensor that tells them to open. Both are measured with a meter, and they are stocked parts on this platform.

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