Matt Mason wrote in message news:

Hi,

I have a GE non-self cleaning gas range, Series XL44, about 5 years old.

XL44 is just a name and not a model#....
http://www.applianceaid.com/model.html
Some model# helps.

The oven will not light. The ignitor would get red hot, then go out,
and then stay on long enough to only get luke warm. I replaced the
ignitor (which was a bit of a pain since the new one came with a
slightly different connector... even though it was the correct model).
The ignitor got red hot, but the gas did not flow. Leaving the range
on, the ignitor did not get red hot again.

So could the problem be with the gas valve? or something else.

The glow coil hot surface ignitor should stay on through out the
heating process and only go out when the oven control says the temp is
ok to shut off the burner....if the glow coil is going off before the
burner can light, bad/loose wire?, bad oven control?. The gas valve is
in series with the glow coil ignitor, *usually* if the gas valve fails
electricaly the ignitor will not come on at all.

The ignitor got red hot

It should almost get white hot.

jeff.

Appliance Repair Aid
http://www.applianceaid.com/