re: Appliance Help Needed: Dryer getting scorching hot

check for continuity between ground and the element.

Did your unit have the fan at the bottom or was it attached to the motor? I may have used the wrong model number in pulling that diagram then.

Some of those have the fan at the bottom and a fan belt in addition to the drum belt. No matter.

That isn't the problem. All thermals are good? element has continuity? Check for continuity to ground from any of the terminals on the heating element. That is what would cause the element to overheat.

The control sends power to the element but the bi-metal thermostats control the cut-off and on of the dryer. In sensor cycles the control does cut power to the heat, but for it to get too hot would say that the element is on too long when it shouldn't be. I would think then, if the heating element is not grounded out, (it won't short, it just makes heat being grounded) then I would replace the limiting thermostat on the element.

You say scorching hot, is it hot on all cycles? Hot on "air fluff?"