Recent content by lancer.62

Thanks all, I ended up releasing the spring, resetting everything, and all is good. The marks were indeed from where the spring was previously, and it was wound about 3 rotations more than it should be.

No the opposite--the spring is so tight I can't get the door to come down. Here's a closeup of the right side collar. There is a wear mark, but not sure if that was from a pair of visegrips setting it up or where the spring used to be attached. I do have the winding rods to release some...

Yeah, I was trying to avoid resetting the spring if possible, but also not wanting to make changes there because if nothing was loosened how would the tension change? I feel like I'm missing something else with the opener and don't want to reset the spring until I understand what is happening...

Hi everyone, Apologies, this is a long post where I hope someone can help me understand what happened to cause my door tension to go way higher, and how I can safely address it once I know what is wrong. The "Incident" I have a Liftmaster 3800 direct-mount garage door opener that we've had...