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title: "Gas burner and igniter repair"
description: "Maytag gas burner and igniter repair: this maker publishes no numbered codes for gas surfaces at all — not one, on any cabinet — so the whole diagnosis is…"
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date_modified: "2026-09-07"
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# Maytag gas burner and igniter repair

### Nothing is published for gas, so behavior is the diagnosis

Not one numbered condition on any gas surface this maker sells — which is why a gas call is a longer conversation on the phone than an electric one, and why the questions sound oddly specific. Whether it clicks without catching, lights and dies a few seconds later, burns yellow rather than blue, or does nothing at all: those four answers name the part between them before anybody arrives. The cheapest of them is the commonest — a cap set back a fraction after a clean sends the spark to metal instead of gas.

What this involves

No published codes on gas: behavior is the entire diagnosis

A cap set back a fraction after a clean is free to correct and very common

Lighting and then dying is flame sensing, not ignition

What the burner actually does

Clicks without catching, lights and dies, burns yellow, or nothing at all. Each is a different part.

The cap and the port

Reseated squarely and cleared. A cap a fraction out sends the spark to metal rather than gas, and something boiled over is the usual reason.

Electrode, sensor and valve

Measured in that order and priced in the opposite one, so the cheap answers are excluded first.

Flame quality, at the end

The color and shape of every flame, because a conversion done without the right orifices shows up here and nowhere else.

### All the burners click when only one is turned on.

That is normal on most of these — one module fires every electrode at once. What matters is which burner then catches and which does not.

### The flames are yellow rather than blue.

Worth mentioning, because it usually means the air-to-gas mixture rather than the burner. It is also what a conversion done without the right orifices looks like, and that shows up here and nowhere else on the appliance.

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