Hi,

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The dryer works fine. I am just wondering if using a different part will cause the solenoid coils or other parts to fail quicker?


I don't normally mix up the parts to find out....but yes early failure of other parts is very possible.

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I noticed that the old part and the new part looked different. So, I did a little research. I found out that my brother-in-law used a different part than what was called for


The body style is a bit different as well.



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I asked my brother-in-law about this; and he said that he has done this before and the dryer worked for years and is still working fine. He also told me that part # 31001556 cost double what part #304970 cost.


Same price online...
part number 304970
part number 31001556

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What do you think about this? Will I have trouble down the line because of this?


Not normally a good idea. Unknown as we don't make a practice of doing this.