How To Tighten The Automatic Garage Door Chain

A sagging chain is a result of normal usage of the garage door opener.

How to tighten the automatic garage door chain.

Open the door fully by hand. Turn it counterclockwise holding the other nut in your hand to prevent it from turning. This will cause premature wear on the chain rollers. Close the garage door.

Lift up the door halfway from the inside using one of the cross members. The reason the chain went off track was because the chain. Then use the wrench to tighten this second nut clockwise until the chain is tighter but not so taut that it is completely inflexible. Position a stepladder at the area of the automatic opener.

Garage door didn t open in the morning. Using your wrench you can start to loosen up the adjusting nut on the side of your carriage closest to the opener head. To fix your garage door cables you ll want to release the tension of the springs by lifting the door. Do not over tighten the chain.

Pull the rope that s attached to your garage door opener. You loosen the locking inner nut and turn the outer nut clockwise to adjust the excess slack from the chain. The chain is a very important component that makes up a garage door opener system. These usually consist of a bolt with two or three nuts one or two for locking or a nut and lock washer and one for adjusting.

It will release the door opener from its drive chain. When the door is lowered you ll notice that the tension springs responsible for raising the door become taught. If the door remains at the halfway position. After close examination we found the chain was off track.

How to properly tighten a garage door opener chain 8 inch adjustable wrench stepladder work gloves.