Frigidaire Gallery Oven PLGF389ACA

[Tim M]

. I'm hoping to get a few ideas before I look at this one. I didn't find any Frigidaire range manuals in the Xdrive stash, but I did search through some articles on this site.

. Got a call from someone who says she the oven takes a minute to start (which sounds like normal glow plug warming up), but when it does it "explodes". I guess this must not be too violent an explosion, as they continue to use it. At first I assumed this was that the safety valve was letting gas through before the glow plug was fully up, or there was a small leak somewhere, but after my diligent perusal of everything I could find on this site, I wonder if the burner orifices are clogged.

. Have others run into a similar situation? Is the burner the place to start and what things should I test?

Thanks to you all.

[AccApp]

Repalce the bake ignitor. Very common problem, thank god. You will find the burner orefices as clean as a whistle if you look at them during the ten minutes it will take you to change out the glowbar.

[Budget Appliance Repair]

Before replacing the ignitor, check the burner ignition and crossover ports.

I had a similar Frigidaire that was taking like two minutes before the gas would come out, (it was a weak ignitor, gas valve should open within about 45 to 60 seconds max.), but unlike with most weak ignitors this one would open the valve fully after about two minutes and you could hear the gas rushing out very loudly but still no ignition.

Found that a very bad boil over spill in the oven had made it's way down between the back gap between the oven floor and back wall and a big glop of cooked food was right on top of the burner and had covered the ignition and cross over ports in the burner, so when the gas safety valve did finally open it wouldn't ignite until the oven filled with gas and then --- BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!! We have ignition.