Old Westinghouse oven won't heat

[shobuddy]

My parents have a very old Westinghouse oven in their home that recently stopped heating. The oven light still comes on. After googling (I know nothing about this stuff) I did a multimeter test by touching the two opposite prongs (it is a 3 pronged plug) that showed the bottom heating element at 21 ohms but the top element showed no change. Surprisingly I was able to find a replacement heating element online for this oven. Before purchasing the element, I just want to confirm/get some opinions that getting no ohms change on the heating element is most likely the cause of the oven not heating and the element needs to be replaced.

 

 

[16345Ed]

On 5/6/2022 at 5:15 PM, shobuddy said:

I just want to confirm/get some opinions that getting no ohms change on the heating element

What does this mean? Change from what?

Edited May 8, 2022 by 16345Ed

[shobuddy]

On 5/8/2022 at 7:33 AM, 16345Ed said:

What does this mean? Change from what?

One element shows 21 ohms when i touch the two prongs.  I assume this means this element is good.

The other element stays at 1 ohm (no change).  I assume this means this element is bad.

That said, I would expect the working element to heat up when the oven is turned on, however, it does not.  This then tells me something else is the issue?

[16345Ed]

It’s dangerous so you need to know what you are doing, but you need to test live circuit for voltage. Starting at wall outlet, then into board and then out of board.