|
Posted by Don Young on October 25, 2007, 9:56 pm
> OK, I have an extension spring garage door I've been doing battle with
> for months now. A couple of months ago, I replaced the springs (one
> broke) and also replaced a bunch of the worn hinges and rollers.
>
> I also tried to straighten the tracks a bit, because the button on the
> bottom bracket (that attaches to the pull cable) had always been
> scraping against the tracks and causing issues. First, I set the
> tracks at 1/2" away from the door on both sides. The scraping was
> much worse that way, and sometimes it would cause the door to jam. It
> seemed to get worse over the course of a few weeks, even after I
> readjusted the spring tension a few times.
>
> I then pulled the tracks as far apart as possible, to keep the thing
> from scraping. Now my problem is that the door always becomes crooked
> when being lowered. By the time it gets near the bottom, it jams and
> resets. I've toyed with the tension quite a bit, and this doesn't
> seem to do anything. I think the problem is more with the tracks, but
> I can't figure out quite what is going on.
>
> Any thoughts on what I need to do to stop this? Also, for the track,
> should it tilt either towards or away from the garage as it goes
> down? In my case, the bottom of the vertical track is maybe an inch
> closer to the inside of the garage than the top. I've seen this is
> typical based on the couple of other doors I checked, but I'm not
> sure. I did try straightening it at one point, but it made the button
> sticking worse (tho unpredictable).
>
> Any help is appreciated. I'm sick of this, and its starting to get
> cold outside!
>
The track should be closer to the jamb at the bottom. The hinges should
correspondingly be shorter from the door to the roller axle at the bottom.
This makes the door tighten toward the jamb as it goes down but keeps the
entire door even with the jamb. You may have some improper or mixed up
hinges.
Don Young
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap