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STUCK IN THE GARAGE
I have a roll up Garage door made by U.S. door, it has been giving me fits as of late, just had the service techs out to adjust it andf all was working well when they left, Went to the barn today to take coach out for a run to get fluids up to temp. Well when I hit the opener in the car, door went up, but not all the way, liked 6 inches to top well that means it is not going to close all the way too! This is the third time I have had the service people out, The adjuster seems to be the problem, has been replaced but still screws up. The thing works great after they fool with it but as soon as they leave, same old s### Do any of you have this same door and any problems? I hope I do not have to get a new door. Yes I could lower the coach and get out but would have only one inch clearance and do not want to try it. gary
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Gary,
Unless your garage door uses a different type of limiting travel the adjustment once set is unlikely to change unless something in the drive system is slipping. My adjusters ride on a threaded shaft that rotates as the door travels. The adjusters in essence “travel” across the shaft and at each end hit a limit switch. I have had both an end drive which rotates the shaft across the top of the door opening, and to which the counterbalance (spring) cables are attached and the ceiling mounted drive that pulls what looks like a bicycle chain to pull the door or push the door open and closed. Each uses the same adjusters and none have gone out of adjustment.
Regardless of which you have there should be an emergency release that allows you to manually raise and lower the door. It will either be a cord on the case in the end drive model, or it will be on the “trolley” on ceiling mounted models.
If you get wild and crazy you can play with the adjusters yourself after watching how they hit the limit switches at each end to understand which way they need to go. But if they were set correctly it would be my guess something in the drive system is slipping. Sounds like your garage door service company is as competent as mine.
If you have 1″ clearance what is the problem. I have less than 1/2″ clearance every single time I back in or pull out and to get that clearance my front has to be all the way up, and the rear all the way down. You’ve seen my driveway and due to the crown I cannot get a thickness of a piece of paper between the garage floor and my holding tank dump valve as it crosses the threshold into the garage. Where is your sense of adventure.
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Gary,
I don’t have fancy electrical garage door openers. I have the old barn type sliding doors, one to the left and the other to the right.
Now about those with just so much clearance, here is a link that you might enjoy contemplating over before taking that leap of clearance faith.
This is the correct link. I don’t know why the PC Forum won’t take you there. Open a new tab and type it in and it goes there every time.
The “hits” just keep coming, including one tour bus that no longer has the roof A/C unit, SETRA.
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Will – Bad Link
Gary – Mine have the roller chains in case of a motor failure, easy to release the drive sprocket.
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Tom,
Good catch. The link should not have had the “inch” mark. I’ve corrected the link in the original post. It should work now.
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Often times it is not the fault of the power lift. Sometimes the door springs due to age need to be adjusted/replaced. The door when adjusted correcty will be able to be raised and lowered easily by hand. If not then there is too mush force for the power lift mechanism to overcome. If you release the door from the power lifter be sure to be prepared for it to come crashing down, that is be aware of the unexpected danger.
I might be all wrong on my opinion here as I can not see what you have.
Find a different door service company, your present one had enough tries.
Just sayin, JIM
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In another post we were talking about Prevost technical improvements over the years is more or less better. When the door man leaves tommorow I will have a chain to manually open the door, I think he n
eeds to read the manual on adjustment, Jon I am a little leary of trying to get out without the door up. You have one of the hardest drives to negotiate! I have to make two ninety degree turns when backing mine in but am used to it as I am sure you are at your place. Thanks every one for your post will let you know what happens Monday. gary
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Nice barn Gary, where’s the refrigerator?
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Now Tom, you know that you do not refridgerate mason jars, Joking it is behind the coach beside the john, You got a new coach congrats tell me about it, did you finally get tired of those awnings? While I am here Let
me give everyone an update on the d### door, The problem as I watched him do the repair was the controller was loose on the wall and every time the door came up it moved just a little bit, just enough to keep it out of order. works good now but he is quoting me one with a hand crank for when the power is out in the barn. Thinking about putting an exhaust outlet thru the wall for the generator would be about 6 feet of flex tubing over the gen exhaust to the wall would this be to long for the engine to exhaust, I could power the barn up during long power outages. Gary
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