Hello, my name is Ash, long time listener first time caller...

[Dust2dust02]

Hello all, I am a first time poster here. Looking for some insight. I recently bought a garage for the first time. The house was always inconsequential. Been doing little things here and there throughout the house, like burning out the bus bar with a welder... You know, that kind of stuff. While the electricians were in and out of the garage 1000 times in the 2 weeks it took them to fix it, the garage door started screeching. I have already done everything I can to lower the horrendous noise. New rollers, isolation mounts, lubrocity and now I make it to the dreaded sheave pulleys. The bearing is apparently going out and it needs to be replaced.

I have 3 issues.

The issue of actually getting to this thing.
The issue of replacing it with another sheave that will fail.
The issue of how much torque these things seem to be under.

Issue 1 I resolved by some careful twisting.

Issue 2 was resolved by getting a 5inch cast iron pulley with actual bearings in it.

Issue 3 I made better by putting a huge *** C channel up against it. I will post that picture later.

My main question for you all is, I googled the heck out of this thing. I found out it is a

Low headroom rear mount spring setup. I found out those pulleys are called sheaves. What I could find NO mention of whatsoever, is the twisting! No one has this problem? Do you and just don't care about it? Please help! I am worried this thing is going to come off and slap around all over my garage.

Thanks!!

 

[MattRMagnum]

Have you talked to a place that does garage door repairs? I'm in a different state, but I had a guy come out, replace some parts, fix everything, and I was out $250 including tax.

 

[Dust2dust02]

Have you talked to a place that does garage door repairs? I'm in a different state, but I had a guy come out, replace some parts, fix everything, and I was out $250 including tax.

I have an aversion to those people. I have paid people to fix my bicycle only to find out that it was done wrong. This is an integral part of my garage and I want to know how to fix it, even IF I call someone.

Honestly I have no problem with calling them, if that is what I have to do. I just wanted to know if what is happening is even weird. I don't want to call someone out to take a look just to find out it is normal and I just wasted money...

 

[Dust2dust02]

So here is what I have done. It didn't get rid of it all but it is WAY better. I just braced it as best I could.

 

[Dust2dust02]

+1

Thought this was kind of a DIY site... I guess this is just a post pictures of the things you paid people to do for you kind of site...

 

[HOTFR8]

Welcome to the GJ.

Thought this was kind of a DIY site... I guess this is just a post pictures of the things you paid people to do for you kind of site...

That post you responded to was that of a spammer - scammer.
If you see posts like that just hit the report button. That one is a repeat offender I must have banned at least 20 times or more.