Supco Gas Igniter for Stove Range, Replacement Part No. SGR403

When you've had the same gas stove for 20+ years and your wife use the oven, the igniter will go out when there's food to be made or in the process of being made.This time around the wife was preheating the oven to make a dessert and the oven was taking forever to preheat. Luckily, the last time it went out, I had ordered 2. I was the hero for fixing it quickly.After it was installed, I grabbed a beer and ordered another one to have on hand for the next time it goes out.

Should be a little cheaper

Hopefully I received then Halloween version this time. My last two igniters went out on Christmas Eve both times. True story.

I have an oven that needs an igniter every ten years or so. This product was the least expensive of several I shopped for. But it is the same part everyone is selling. It fit my oven and took five minutes to install. So far so good.

Replacing the igniter in my GE XL44 oven range was relatively easy after watching a couple of videos on YouTube. The only problem I had was not being able to release the plastic connector that was on one of the leads of the old igniter. And it just so happens that that lead had an extension wire-nutted on so I wound up disconnecting it at the wire nut. The other lead from the igniter connected via spade-connector so that was easy to disconnect.After removing the screws that held the burner to the back of the oven, the whole burner/igniter assembly lifted right out from the inside of the oven. Then I just needed to remove the two screws that held the igniter to the burner and replaced it with the new igniter, wire nutted the original spade connector lead to one of the leads of the new igniter, dropped the assembly back in place and secured it to the back of the oven with the two screws removed earlier.After reconnecting the lead with the spade connector the only thing left was to wire nut the other lead to the bare end of the wire with the plastic connector that I wasn't able to release. This was the most challenging part because I had to do it while lying on the floor with little space under the oven to secure the wire nut. The good news is that when I got done, it worked! I easily saved a couple of hundred dollars, if not more, by buying the part on Amazon and doing the job myself!!

Works perfectly in my oven. No need to call a service man as it's fairly easy, with plenty of youtube videos for instructions. The wire with the spade tip was about 3 inches too short, so I cut off the spade tip and spliced it with the wire from the oven. Other than that, it was a fast, easy replacement, saving me hundreds of dollars for a service call. (A serviceman will also charge you MORE for this same part, just as with auto mechanics when you let them do the work. Extra profit for them.) I didn't need the extra metal piece that comes with it.Get the right tools when you repair something. It's a good investment, even a cheap set of socket wrenches. Don't try using pliers or whatever you have laying around. I saw someone who thought they could change the oil in their car with pliers. She messed up the drain plug so badly that I couldn't get a socket over it, so I had to use a hammer and chisel along the sides of the plug to rotate it out. (I wouldn't let her try using my chisel as I was sure she'd hit the oil pan, causing a leak.) Then she wanted to put the same drain plug back in afterwards. I talked her into buying a new plug. She could have bought a socket set for the same price as a plug from the dealer.

Almost identical in looks to the original factory igniter for my GE gas range. When this one arrives, it comes with one end that has the terminal on it and one end with a bare wire. You need to disconnect your old igniter and save it. To hook up this new one you need to snip off the end of the original igniters wire that has the mini plastic connector on it, then splice it to the bare wire of this new igniter using a wire nut. The supplied wire nuts with this igniter are terrible and it don't recommend using them. Once spliced you can then install this new igniter and connect it appropriately. I also noticed that the connector that was already on the new igniter doesn't have the plastic protector over it like the original one. So, this igniter isn't a direct fit replacement and is slightly cheaper in those aspects than a factory replacement, but those are very minor compared to paying triple the price for a factory one. It only adds about 5 minutes to the job. Beyond that, the igniter functions perfectly and brought our oven back to life just a few days before thanksgiving.

Priced a new gas stove lately?They haven't really changed in the last 20+ years.Maybe an added timer or such, but a stove is pretty much just a "stove".Saved us $1000, at least for a few years.CAUTION; be careful, there are sharp bits around, use a light and a mirror and take your time.