A3878XRB Admiral Range - Instructions

During normal use, the heating element on my electric range burst into flames one day. Judging from the internet, this is actually fairly common! It's an electrical fire, so it's important to shut the oven off at once, and not a bad idea to cut the circuit breaker immediately. Then put the fire out and unplug. Remove what's left of the old element by unscrewing 2 mounting screws where it enters the oven rear wall. Taking door off of oven made it easier to lean in there. Then pull the crimp connections apart to get the wires off of each end. There are videos on youtube and partselect.com showing how. One thing they don't mention is that the wires may want to disappear back into the hole in the oven wall once they're loose. So hang onto them. I put a piece of duct tape around each one to keep it from slipping back into those small holes. When the new element arrived, I just reconnected the two crimp connectors and re-mounted the two screws. Of course, make sure range is unplugged while you're in there. Those two wires have 220V on them. I'm also never again going to leave my range on, either in baking or cleaning mode, when I'm not home. That fire was scary!

The hardest part was deciding if this part would fix the problem. The upper oven became unusable. Both elements worked fine until reaching temperature. The oven would not come back on after that. I took two screws out. Then I pulled the wires out and unsnapped the coupling. The install was reverse. I just snapped the coupling in place and replaced the two screws. All works fine now. Saved a couple thousand as wife was prepared to buy a new one.

just removed two screws installed the unit replaced the two screws

Turned off circuit breaker to oven. Removed old unit by undoing screws and remove from clamp.Put to unit in by placing it to clamps and adjusting so it was level and screwed it back in. Voila! But now I think I need a sensor..

shut power off to range. removed oven shelves to make getting old element out a lot easier. removed screws that hold old element to back of oven - carefully pulled old element out about 3-4 inches. pulled power connectors off end of element. then installed new element in reverse order. Very easy to do. My wife could have done,but she does baking. I do the repairing. Thank-you for such great service. Greentown joe

turned breakers off unscrewed two screws, removed old element.Reattached wires on new element,put two screws back in. flipped breakers back on and its good to go.

number 1 was to shut off circuit breaker. Just removed 2 screws pulled out element slowly to expose wire terminals, removed wires carefully so terminal was not damaged. Replace element was spot on so install was in less than 5 min.

killed power...removed back of stove...removed switch and replaced it..reinstalled back...powered up

Removed two screws holding oven sensor in place. Haad to remove part of the back to access wires. Found existing wires had burnt up, and had to reterminate same. Installed new sensor, making sure the leads did not come in contact with the rear of oven compartment. (This may have been what caused failure to begin with)

Turn the power off at the breaker first! then I used a phillip head screwdriver and unscrewed the two screws that was holding the metal plates on, then pulled the element out with the wires connected and pulled off the terminals. Then i put the new element in and hooked the wires to the terminals then pushed back through the back of the oven then screwed the plates back on then it was done!

The "PartsSelect" General discription of the parts funtion helped me to confirm my suspitions that there was some form of temperature registering problem. I whatched the short video they provided on how to change the part out, even though, in this case, it's pretty self explanitory.The part was in my hands a day erlier than promised and in reality, much earlier than I had anticipated from the beginng. It took me all total, 20 minutes to exchange the part out and have the oven in operation again.

The sensor inserts into a slot in the back side of the range. By removing screws on the heat shield on the backside of the range, the sensor wires will be exposed can be unplugged. Then remove the screws that attach the sensor to the back inside panel in the oven. Next, pull the old sensor out. The wire leads will get caught on the insulation blanket, no big deal. Reverse the process to install the new sensor. The new sensor comes with two connector sets for the wiring. I did the whole job for less than the cost of a service call.

We lifted the glass top, uninstalled the old burner and installed the new burner in it's place. It worked right away - and is still working. No other tricks the new burner was a perfect fit.

The video was good but my model had and additional back plate that wasn't mentioned with 6 additional screws to take out and put back in. Other than that the video explained everything including checking the wires, clips. Oven works great now.

I searched Whirlpool, Sears and random appliance stores and Part Select was the only company to have the lens available. All other manufacturers said the lens was no longer manufactured as a stand alone piece and I would have to buy the entire light assembly. Thank you Parts Select!!!!!