Cleaning Your Garage Door, Winding Springs, Rear Support

WARNING

Failure to place vice clamps onto vertical track can allow door to raise and cause severe or fatal injury.

	23	Winding Springs
	23	Tools: Step Ladder, Approved winding bars, 3/8” Wrench
		Tools: Step Ladder, Approved winding bars, 3/8” Wrench

Position a ladder slightly to the side of the spring so that the winding cone is easily accessible, and so your body is not directly in line with the winding bars.

Check the label attached to the spring warning tag for the required number of complete turns to balance your door.

Door Height	Approximate Spring Turns

6’0”	6-7/8 Turns

6’3”	7-1/8 Turns

6’5”	7-1/4

6’6”	7-3/8 Turns

6’8”	7-1/2

6’9”	7-5/8 Turns

7’0”	7-7/8 Turns

7’3”	8 Turns

7’6”	8-1/4 Turns

7’9”	8-1/2 Turns

8’0”	8-3/4 Turns

Alternately inserting the winding bars into the holes of the springs winding cone, rotate the winding cone upward toward the ceiling, 1/4 turn at a time, until the required number of com- plete turns for your door height is achieved. As the last 1/8 to 1/4 turn is achieved, securely hold the winding bar while tightening both set screws in the winding cone to 14-15 ft. lbs. of torque (once set screws contact the tube, tighten screws one full turn).

Carefully remove winding bar from winding cone. Repeat for the opposite spring. While holding the door down to prevent it from raising unexpectedly in the event the spring(s) were over- wound, carefully remove the locking pliers from the torsion tube and vertical tracks.

Adjustments to the number of turns stated may be necessary. If door rises off floor under spring tension alone, reduce spring tension until door rests on the floor. If the door is hard to raise or drifts down on its own, add spring tension.

NOTE: An unbalanced door such as this can cause garage door opener operation problems.

Rear Support

24 Tools: Ratchet wrench, Socket: 1/2” 5/8”, Wrench: 1/2” 5/8”, (2) Vice clamps, Tape measure, Level, Hammer, Step Ladder

Raise the door until the top section and half of the next section are in a horizontal position. Do not raise door any further since rear of horizontal track is not yet supported.

WARNING

Raising door further can result in door falling and cause severe or fatal injury.

Clamp a pair of vice clamps on the vertical tracks just above the second roller on one side, and just below the second roller on the other side. This will prevent the door from raising or lowering while installing the rear support.

Using perforated angle (may not be supplied), (2) 5/16”-1- 5/8” hex head lag screws and (3) 5/16” bolts with nuts (may not be supplied), fabricate rear support for horizontal tracks. Attach horizontal tracks to the rear supports with 5/16”-18 x 1 hex bolts and nuts (may not be sup- plied). Horizontal tracks must be level and parallel with door within 3/4” to 7/8” maximum of door edge.

NOTE: If an idrive® opener is installed, position horizontal tracks one hole above level when securing it to the rear supports.

WARNING

Keep horizontal track parallel and within 3/4” to 7/8” maximum of door edge, otherwise door could fall, resulting in severe or fatal injury.

Important: Do not support the weight of the door on any part of the horizon- tal track hanger that cantilevers 4” or more beyond a sound framing member.

Note: If rear supports are to be installed over drywall, use (2) 5/16” x 2” hex head lag screws and make sure lag screws engage solid structural lumber.

Note: 26” angle must be attached to sound framing members and nails should not be used. Now, permanently attach the weather seal on both door jambs and header (temporarily attached

in Preparing the Opening, in the pre-installation section of this manual). Avoid pushing weather seal too tightly against face of door.

Optional Installations

Trolley Arm Configuration

Tools: Tape measure, Level

Measure the curved ends of the horizontal track to determine if you have a 12” or 15” radius horizontal track, as shown in FIG 1; if you have a low headroom door skip this step. Determine center line of the door. Mark vertical line at this point on the header, as shown in FIG 4. Raise the door slightly until the top section reaches the highest point of travel (high arc), as shown in FIG 2 and FIG 3 for low headroom. Using a level, mark this high arc point on the header where it intersects the vertical center line, as shown in FIG 4. Hold the wall bracket’s bottom edge 1/2” - 1” (room permitting) above the high arc line and centered on the vertical center line, as shown in FIG 4. Mark the wall bracket’s mounting holes on the header wall and then refer to your garage door operator manual for pre-drilling and securing the wall bracket to header.

Using the operator hook-up charts, refer to referenced illustrations for correct arm hook-up from trolley to operator bracket. For low headroom, refer to operator hook-up chart for low headroom.

Note: Refer to your operator manual for specific details on how to assembly the curved and straight arm, as shown in FIG 5 and FIG 6, and FIG 7 and FIG 8 for low headroom.

Note: Depending on your setup, you may or may not have to cut straight arm to accomplish trolley settings.

Align hole in the appropriate arm with holes in operator bracket tabs, as shown in step, Trolley Arm Hookup. Insert 5/16” x 1-1/4” clevis pin, making sure hole in clevis pin is outside of second tab of operator bracket. Insert cotter pin into clevis pin hole and spread hairpin cotter to ensure it will secure assembly.

OPERATOR HOOK-UP CHART,STANDARD LIFT FOR 12” AND 15” RADIUS

OPERATOR MODELS		TYPE OF ARM BEING USED			REF. ILLUSTRATIONS

QUANTUM/CLASSIC		CURVED / STRAIGHT			FIG 6

LINEAR		STRAIGHT / CURVED			FIG 5

LIFTMASTER (SEARS)		CURVED / STRAIGHT			FIG 6

GENIE		CURVED / STRAIGHT			FIG 6


OPERATOR HOOK-UP CHART FOR LOW HEADROOM

OPERATOR	TYPE OF ARM BEING USED
MODELS
MODELS	PREFERRED		REF. ILLUSTRA-	OPTIONAL		REF. ILLUSTRA-
	PREFERRED		REF. ILLUSTRA-	OPTIONAL		REF. ILLUSTRA-
	HOOKUP		TIONS	HOOK-UP		TIONS

QUANTUM /	CURVED /		FIG. 8	STRAIGHT		FIG. 7
CLSSSIC	STRAIGHT

LINEAR	STRAIGHT		FIG. 7	N/A		N/A

LIFTMASTER	CURVED /		FIG. 8	STRAIGHT		FIG. 7
(SEARS)	STRAIGHT

GENIE	CURVED /		FIG. 8	STRAIGHT		FIG. 7
	STRAIGHT

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