High lift conversion, Height needed?

[jarhead]

I am wanting to angle the upper tracks up on this (the left door from the inside of the garage picture). I realize there is currently no room to do so but i am working on that too.

As seen in the picture the torsion spring is nearly touching the rafters. So i don't have any room to raise that.

The question is, with no obstruction can the top rails of the garage track angle up to get the door higher, or is it limited by the torsion setup height? The rafter tie's may be located higher or there may be another solution.
Thanks

 

[wssix99]

The tracks can angle up, but you would need a follow-the-ceiling track kit. The springs, drums and maybe other parts like the door rollers will be different. (More weight will rest on the springs, so a lot of mechanics of the door change.)

 

[Adaylate]

Looks to me you're already about as high as you can go.
My high lifts put the door about a foot down from the ceiling. I have 12' walls.
Good Luck!

 

[kngelv]

The torsion spring is not the issue. You need a taller radius for the turn. Can’t tell from the pics if it can be done.

James

 

[dante2]

Stand in the corner directly under the track and take a pic at the track on the far wall. A shot showing the track in relation to the wall and the ceiling is best.

 

[jarhead]

Older picture but can get better one today when we are there. It's about a 90 minute drive.

 

[jstroede]

What I see is there is no high lift to be done. What you are wanting is a roof pitch. It does look like you could do that. It would change your springs, and you would have to do some fab work on the horizontal track assembly, but it appears it could be done. The operator is where roof pitch can get tricky, if you are wanting to try and reuse that opener.

John

 

[manwithtools]

It's gonna be tricky to do anything different with openers (like jackshaft style). That garage construction is very interesting. Looks like someone added 4 feet to the back of it at some point. That was a lot of work for what it gained. I'd check that beam (LVL ?) has adequate support and is sized properly.

I would be super investigative before you make any structural changes. I noticed the doors don't seem to have top plates above the headers, Kind of hard to tell what's connecting the headers??? I would be very careful with what you modify. Garage door openings are two different heights and the doors are from very different generations of garage door designs. I wonder if the added the smaller door when they extend the back wall?

 

[jarhead]

Ya it's definitely sketchy. We were allowed $4500 at closing to help fix the garage. Will have to tear out the sheet rock and all the insulation to get a good look at what all was done sketchy.

Yes someone added 4' to the back of it, no permit for the garage or any of it's modifications that i can find. I really dont want to ask to keep whats there from ending up on my taxes. It was modified in 2003 looking at date stamps on the glu lam. The electrical is a whole nother story that is going to cost money to fix.