Electric cooker oven ceramic hob element testing replacement and repair

This is not an hard job but it can be made more difficult by bad design and on this particular model its made more difficult than it really should be , on refitting you have to align the pins in the correct places to made the metal outer shroud to fit correctly. Unfortunately changing one moves all of them and it can take a while to realign the ceramic elements into position for it all to fit together nicely. I always mare the holes that the pins come from so that is one problem solved i usually tipex the tips of the element fitment pins so i can see them easier but today typically i had ran out so made it a little harder on myself.

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Undo the retaining screws from around the outside of the 

housing shroud and then you can lift the shroud up 

you get just enough room to sneak a ceramic element out but it tight 

and you will move all of them and have to realign the fitting pins 

see photo below for fitting pins and i have marked next to them 

in black marker pen to show me which holes the pins align to

as the manufacturer kindly drilled loads of holes just to confuse matters 

fitting pins and marking the holes with marker pen for realignment purposes

You can remove this earth its the only wire you can remove and it gets it out of the way at

least 

undo retaining screws 

photo and write down wire connectors so you will not make a mistake when you 

fit 

below is a photo of my connections notes to make this easier for myself 

lift up the housing shroud and you can see all the ceramic elements 

i am choosing the easiest to get to if yours is faulty you will not have much choice 

here is the element removed and free 

Here i am testing the element for continuity set multimeter to ohms 

and test on the 2 connections closest to the element and make sure its the correct

one , if you get a reading here i get 26 ohms you element is intact and good. If no reading replace it .

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I am going to slide the element back in place and reconnect the wiring connections

wires all connected and attemping to realign the housing fitment pins with holes 

 Job done all pins aligned and ready to refit hob back 

it took me 20 mins to realign pins .

See video of this process below