Lubricating the springs hinges and other metal parts can help your door to move easily.
Garage door moves a foot then stops nothing blocking.
The electric eye safety system has two green lights.
If your garage door opens part of the way at least 5 feet and then stops you ll want to turn the up limit knob to the right.
In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor.
If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to open again then it may be due to a problem with the close limit switch.
This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.
The garage springs are normally fragile and rigid.
You ll also want to make sure you keep the trolley about 2 to 4 inches from the protection bolt.
It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.
It may be as simple as the floor limit switch getting hit incorrectly.
When you adjust this the force at which it pulls will increase.
After installing a new drive gear kit to rplace the stripped out gears the garage door only moves in the closing direction about a foot then reverses itself and goes back to the open position.
The limit switchesare se properly and the contacts do not touch when the door reverses.
Now if your garage door stops opening up before it gets to 5 feet you ll need to adjust the open or up force nob.
You push the button to close the garage door.
If your garage door is stopping before it meets the floor watch this video for the fix.