Problem With Garage Door Opener



Question:
My single door garage opener is Sear brand. It works, but not all the time, specially during winter time. It seems not having enough juice to jerk open the garage door. It needs to take more than a couple of pushes of button to open the door. It helps opening the door when I pull the gliding lock off the hook before I push the button. Winter time is worse, it takes forever bushing the button and it never opens. Please help.

Answer:
I'm going to speculate here, so take this for what it's worth. There's a gear in the motor that engages the chain to accomplish the lifting. When my springs were shot, the result was that several teeth were stripped off of this gear (which is plastic). When I tried to open the door the motor would hum but no movement took place. The gear had to be replaced. I wonder if your gear isn't totally stripped, but a portion of the teeth are missing. In that situation, if the gear was in the "right" position when you engaged the motor it would work. That might explain why sometimes it works fine on the 1st push and other times you have to repeatedly engage it before you get any action.





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