Garage Door Keeps Bouncing Back Up

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Garage door keeps bouncing back up.

Turn it one complete turn clockwise. Bad pillow block bearing on torsion tube. As is the case with so many issues at the home there s no one reason why your garage door closes then opens. If these can t see each other when the door is almost shut it will send a signal to the garage door motor to open back up.

A careless or rushed parking job can cause the car s bumper to block the sensor. Your travel down setting needs to be adjusted. Bad top oilite bearing just under drive sprocket on opener power head. Your garage door sensor works by having two photo sensitive devices on either side of the garage door.

Most likely there is an obstruction or motor sensitivity is incorrect. Here s a rundown of some of the possible reasons this can be happening. You want the one on the left. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.

Check how door operates in manual mode and run it up and down by hand feeling for heavy weight grabbing or binding points. Possible reasons why your garage door hits the floor then goes back up. Missing wheels on door rollers. If you find that your garage door is reversing before even hitting the floor then it could be possible that there is a problem with the close force setting.

Sometimes the sensors will be in alignment and just as the door gets close to being shut it will vibrate enough to push one sensor off. You push the button to close the garage door. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. Sometimes it can be torsion springs have relaxed some of its tension and door has become too heavy.