Anyone here have experience with winding the spring on a residential garage door?
My opener took a crap and I am getting a new part for it, but when I disengaged the garage door opener the door doesnt go up or down and easliy anymore. Wonder if this is why the opener when out in the first place ....

PLEASE HELP!!!!

 

there are usually 4 holes in the winder, that you can put a pipe in to turn to adjust the preload. BE CAREFULL! I recommend 2 pipes so it doesnt go spinning around.

 

Yeah, but I dodnt want to take that chance. My neighbor did his but scared the livivng s**t out of him doing it.

 

I heard a tC can fix garage doors!

 

Hey Chris I just had to have my garage door fixed recently cause mine took a crap and broke. I was shutting my door and one of the brackets broke that the cable went to and it made the door get all cockeyed and I had to take the other cable off to get the door down. Anyway i thought of doing it all myself until I hear you have to be careful about winding the springs....they need to have a certain tension on them. So i had someone come out and fix it. they told me my springs were shot and It ended up costing me $400.00 bucks to have it fixed but they gave me new rollers along with a new bracket and new springs. It was interesting watching him wind the springs. He has two pipes that he was using to wind it. If you do try to do it yourself I'd be very careful but I'd recommend paying someone to do it. I hated to have to shell out the 4 hundy but it was better than me trying and hurting myself or even killing myself with the spring. Sorry that it broke I fell your pain

 

hey chris tim did his its not that bad he will be on that side of town tomorrow if u still need help let us know.

 

Be careful. As most of us know, springs are very dangerous. Leaf springs, coil springs, valve springs and garage door springs. If you don't have the right tools and the right know how... I wouldn't reccomend doing it. Just my $.02

 

Mooneyzs..Thanks for the heads up. Thats exactly why I dont want to do it myself , I want to keep my arms .

devstc..Does Tim have the pipes or tools to do it? If so, then I would greatly appreciate it. I dont have any funds at the moment to pitch in but maybe we could work somehing out.

Boomster..thats terrible!!!

 

+1!!

 

not tC's, spoilers

 

Chris, if you have the roll spring, you will be able to crank the spring and then “pin” it. Go back and reload the crank, apply pressure, remove the pin and crank more and re pin it. Keep doing this a few times until you feel the load on the door up and down motion is enough that the spring will not have undue pressure and enough load removed not to overload the motor. Free wheeling the door up and door by hand, you will know when the door its to heavy or to light.

 

I hear front bumpers do wonders in the garages too..

 

Yes he does, i will have him call you.. on this.

 

BIG thank you to Tim "handyxbbox" for his garage door spring bravery ..
Now my door works awesome... ..

 

Good work!