Garage Door Shimmies Closing

I have a single car garage door driven by a craftsman belt drive.

Garage door shimmies closing.

All these situations will cause the sensors to tell the garage door opener not to close there could be an obstruction. If it isn t it could get in the way of the electronic beam and prevent the garage door from closing because the cardboard tube is breaking the beam. Check the safety sensors. The motor and drive seem to work fine but when i want to close the garage door there is a lot of noise and the door seems to move down in jerks and starts.

Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. The first part of the closing is relatively smooth but as the door gets to about half way down on the guide rail. Get shopping advice from experts friends and the community. If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could.

Once you ve determined the proper length of tube to block the sun from the electric eye you may want to go to a hardware store and invest in some plastic or rubber tubing that would be more. My garage door opener starts to close then goes backs up. Press fit pulleys and cast iron pulleys. If your garage door shakes when opening or closing or sounds like it is going to fall off the track the problem is most often the pulleys.

But it still shakes. Jedi for months i noticed that my garage door shakes when it closes. Most companies use a press fit pulley which is made up of two separate pieces attached by ball bearings onto the.