Product review (5 stars): Fits, Works, Much Cheaper than the Whole Heater Assembly
Installing this replacement element in my 1989 Maytag dryer was straightforward.  Allow yourself about 1.5 to 2 hours to do the whole job start to finish.  You can buy the whole heater element assembly and cut the job down to about 30 to 45 minutes but at four times the cost.  Remove the front panel from the dryer and uninstall the heater element assembly.  When you open up the old heater element assembly, it opens in a clamshell fashion.  Do yourself a favor and whip out that digital camera and take a picture of the old routing.  Use a stout pair of diagonal cutters to snip the old nichrome elements at several places to ease the removal of the old element.  Start threading the new element by finding the approximate mid-point of the heating element and string it through the ceramic ferrule at the mid-point of the heater element assembly.  This is where that digital photo comes in handy if you didn't mark the mid-spot before yanking out the old stuff.  Then begin working your way to the ends, threading the element through the ceramic ferrules, criss-crossing the assembly, and eventually ending up where it terminates at the brass terminals.  You will find that it doesn't quite reach.  Again, starting at the middle, spread the 'coils' a little bit at a time by pulling on the element using two hands, all along the way to the end until you have increased the length so it can reach the brass nuts.  There should be some tension on the element as it is threaded through all the ferrules.  If it is loosey-goosey, there is a chance it could contact the metal shell of the heater assembly and you could get a nasty shock if you have a bad ground or faulty dryer plug.