Garage Door Repair - Some Useful Tips

1. Garage Door Repair Some Useful Tips

2. Synopsis • How to Repair Your Garage Door Cable • How to Repair a Garage Door Cable • All You Need to Know About Garage Door Remote Clickers • Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door Torsion Spring • How To Repair A Garage Door Opener • How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs

3. How to Repair Your Garage Door Cable 1. Disconnect the door opener from an electric outlet and remove arm from the opener. Lock and clamp door closed using vise grip tracks. Undo all the springs and keep you face away from the winding cone. Loosen the drum and remove the cable from the cable drum. Loosen the track and remove the bottom bracket and free the cable from it and remove the cable from the door. Attach the new cable into the bottom bracket and reinstall the fasteners and tighten them up. Place back the bracket to its original position. Mount the cable in the drum, while ensuring it runs freely from the bottom brackets. Ensure the cable is well fixed on the cable drum and then you can gently tighten the screws on the cable drum. Slip the winding bar inside the cone and wind it upwards. Fasten up the brackets and tighten the bolts. After both cables are installed and both cable drums are tightened down, you can release tension on the torsion spring. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

4. How to Repair a Garage Door Cable • Lock down the door. This will involve clamping the door to the track. It is the most basic step as it ensures the safety of the remaining process. It will prevent the door from moving unexpectedly and causing damage while working on the cable • Loosen the unbroken spring. On this task, winding bars are used. Here you shove a winding bar into the good spring through the winding cone. Then you loosen the two screws but hold the bar while doing such. As the screws are released, the spring will push. • Unwind the unbroken spring. In this process, two winding bars are used. At the 9:00 position, the second bar is inserted. Remove the bottom bar and unwind the spring a quarter turn at a time. Then in that process, the winding bars will be leapfrogging with each turn. • Springs disconnection from the Center bracket. This will involve removal of nuts and bolts. These nuts are the ones that fasten the stationary spring cones to the brackets. Then slide the springs towards the end brackets.

5. How to Repair a Garage Door Cable • Secure the torsion tube. This is done using locking pliers. To avoid disconnection, snap the locking pliers to the Center bracket then loosen the set screws on both left and right then snap it to the center bracket then loosen the set screws in the left and right lift cables so the cables could be disconnected. • Remove the old spring. You must replace the old spring with a new one. • Install left spring. Reassemble every other dismantled material and insert the new spring. • Install a new Center bearing by connecting the stationary cones back to the bracket. Additionally, rusted parts has to be replaced. Some of these parts are bottom brackets, rollers and lift cables. • Thread the candles by anchoring the cable in the slot • Tighten the drums by equalling tension on both sides. • Wind, stretch and lubricate the strings.

6. All You Need to Know About Garage Door Remote Clickers • Programming Universal Garage Door Remote Clickers • Manufacturers produce replacement remotes in case your existing remote get lost or damaged. However, there are also universal remote clickers that work perfectly with any garage door. The options are limitless. You can choose from array of products on the market based on your preference and specifications. • The Remote Button • The number of buttons on the remote clicker depends on the number of functionalities attached to it. In other words, the number of buttons is determined by the number of devices it controls. A remote can have up to four buttons. For instance, if your garage has two doors and a remote- controlled light, then your remote clicker should have three buttons. • Wireless Keypad • As a substitute for a garage door remote clicker, you can install a wireless keypad outside the garage door for the use of other authorized members of the family to have access to the garage. Some wireless keypads are programmed to open up to three garage doors. Instead of using a remote to open or close your door, you simply input your code. This becomes a very good alternative in case you lose your remote or when you have a guest visiting.

7. Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door Torsion Spring • First, close the garage and unplug the door opener. Clutch the bars firmly on both ends cones. Keep your head away from the way of the winding cone, while you unwind the spring. Position yourself safely on a sturdy ladder. Wear safety glasses. Keep your clothes away from the springs. • Take the measurements of the old and new springs to ensure you have the precise springs. Make marks on the drums and torsion shaft at each end to help you level the garage door after installing the new torsion springs. • Stand firmly on a ladder and insert a well-fitting rod into the winding cone and unwind the broken torsion spring. As a precaution do not wind or unwind the springs using a screwdriver. Make count of the turns you make to unwind the spring, so that you will know how many turns to make while installing the new spring. • Carefully remove the springs out towards the cable drum, and loosen the screws on the cable drum on the left garage door and ensure the drum can easily turn. Then take away the cable from the left of the drum.

8. Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door Torsion Spring • Remove the cable from each sides of the drum. Unbolt the drum from the pole and take it off. Replace the new springs by first sliding the drum away from the bearing plate and slide the shaft to the left. • Lining up with the markings you made earlier, re-install the torsion hardware by sliding the drum on the shaft, and then slip the shaft on the bearing. Then fasten the set screws into their original dent while rotating the drum to find the slots. Make sure the screws meet the shaft. • Ensure that the new springs are properly installed on the exact sides of the center bracket. Then wind the springs. • Remove the vise grips holding the garage door and slowly check to see if the door is functioning properly. Apply the recommended oil to the springs. Finally connect back the opener and plug in the power cable.

9. How To Repair A Garage Door Opener • The remote control and the wall switch do not control the door • When both the remote and the switch do not control the garage door, it could be because the power source has been interrupted. • The motor system also may have been unplugged. Ensure that the cord is plugged in to the door opener. It could also be because the motor has burned out. You will require a professional to fix the motor. • The circuit breaker, fuse or GFCI, that controls the door may have been burned out or tripped. You will need to replace the burned out fuse or GFCI and circuit breaker. If they are tripping repeatedly, it’s a sign that there is a short circuit somewhere in the system. • The garage door does not close entirely • The safety sensors on the both sides of the door track are blocked and you need to remove anything blocking their sightline. Usually when this happens, the lights will gleam to indicate there is an issue with the door. • You need to adjust the close-limit switch. If it is set wrong, it will inhibit the door from opening and closing correctly. The close-limit switch prevents people from being hit by the door. • Damaged or rusted rollers will prevent the door from sliding smoothly. It also could be that the rollers are bent or have veered off their track. You need to lubricate the rollers regularly and replace the damaged ones.

10. How To Repair A Garage Door Opener • The opener makes a grinding noise but the door doesn’t move • When the opener makes some noise, as if the door is opening, but it does not, the main drive gear may be defective and need replacement. • The garage door refuses to open in the winter • The garage door might not open due to very low temperatures in the winter. This is because the rollers get stiff. You will need to adjust the sensitivity of the opener and lubricate the rollers. • The garage door retreats back after touching the floor • Where the door spring back immediately after touching the floor, the close-limit switch could be faulty. The close-limit adjustment screw needs to be adjusted. • The remote is functioning, but the wall switch isn’t • Where the remote is functioning but the switch is not, it could be because the switch and the switch wires are defective. You need to check which of the two is defective and replace it.

11. How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs • Lock the door down tightly using locking pliers slightly above one of the rollers. This is to prevent the door from reversing back and hurting you as you wind the new springs. Also remember to unplug the door opener from the power outlet. • Loosen and unwind the unbroken spring. Push the winding bar into the bottom hole of the winding shaft of the intact spring. Clamp the winding bar in place as you slacken the two setscrews. Fasten the other winding bar into the hole, and unwind the spring. • Detach the springs from the middle bracket, by removing nuts and bolts and then sliding the springs into the end brackets • By the help of locking pliers, clamp the torsion rod onto the bracket. Slacken off the setscrews on the left and right side of the cable drums and detach the cables.

12. How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs • Remove the old spring. Slide the torsion bar to the right, on the left side of the door to remove the cable from the drum. Then remove the spring from the tube. • Fix the left spring. With the cone facing the center bracket, slip the new spring on the torsion tube. Reinstall the cable drum and insert the torsion bar to the left-side bearing bracket. • Fix the new center bearing slip onto the torsion bar. Install the right spring and shove the bearing into the cone and restore the drum. Fasten the cones onto the center bracket. • Change the rollers, bottom brackets and lift cables. Replace the new roller and bottom brackets, then wound the new cable. • Thread the cables in the slot. Run the cables between the rollers and the doorjamb. Slip the lift cable stop onto the opening on the drum.

13. How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs • Tighten the drums. Clamp the locking pliers on the torsion tube. Ensure it is locked in one place as you tighten the drums. Revolve the drum to wind the cable into the winding ruts. Make sure the cable is tight enough before you tighten up the setscrews. To ensure the door opens evenly, equalize tension on both sides. • Wind the springs. Put the winding bar hooked on the cone and wind the springs in an upward motion. Make sure you make exact number of turns as recommended in the manual. Rotate the spring a quarter turn at a time. • When you are done wounding the spring, stretch the spring from the center using a winding bar, before you fasten the screws. Rotate the setscrews until they reach the torsion tube. Be careful not to over tighten the screws, as they can interfere with the torsion tube. • Lubricate the spring using the recommended garage door lubricant.

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