Converting the New Style Gas Valves in Whirlpool-built Gas Dryers

All gas dryers come from the factory set up to run on natural gas. Some places, such as up here in extreme northern Yankeeland, use propane instead of natural gas. If that’s the case where you live, you’ll need to pervert the dryer to burn propane instead of natural gas. If you have an older dryer, see this page for perversion destructions.

If you have a newer Whirlpool-built gas dryer (built since 2009, includes Maytag and some Kenmore models) that you need to convert to run on propane, you’ll see that the gas valve on your dryer is a different animal from what’s shown in the aforementioned post. Whirlpool has modified the gas valve to make it even easier to do the conversion. This post will ‘splain it all to you.

These new gas valves have what looks like a cap where the blocking pin screw used to be on the older valves:

To convert the gas dryer, you’ll need the Gen-u-wine gas dryer perversion kit, which you can buy ratcheer. Here’s a purdy pitcher:

Now, for those of you who don’t like reading a lot of detailed instructions, here’s the Cliff Notes® version:

And here are the official perversion destructions that come with the kit:

Whirlpool Gas Dryer Conversion Kit Instructions W10301479A

Remember to leak check your work when you’re done so your house won’t go BOOM and your pants go brown! Come git you a bottle of gas leak bubble solution.

So mote it be!

To learn more about your dryer, or to order parts, click here.

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