Raising Garage door tracks?

[Bigwhite11]

Hey everyone. My wife to be and I just purchased a new home and I'm trying to figure out as much stuff as possible before I get home (currently in Afghanistan) and move everything into the garage. Is there any way to raise the tracks of the garage doors and the opener to gain more room above my vehicles? I just see lighting being an issue with the doors so low. Thanks and here's some pics of the garage! Blank Slate!!!!

 

[bjtstarfire]

Google high lift garage tracks.
New jack shaft openers.

 

[upndown]

Hey Bigwhite, first off Thank you for your service!! You have the Wayne Dalton torquemaster system..wont be able to convert that to high lift. At least I never have.. You will need to convert that to torsion spring! That means adding track, new spring, cables, drums, end and center bearings, torsion shaft etc. Hate to say it but probably best to have a door man look at it.. Not gonna be cheap! Good luck

 

[pattenp]

Sure is, do a highlift conversion.

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[skyking]

I never coment when those ahead of me obviously know more. You guys closed this one fast.

 

[AndyL]

Hey pattenp - is that just a jamb bracket extension - that your using for mounting the cable tension monitor?

 

[Bigwhite11]

Been thinking about this for the last couple of days and was wondering what you guys thought of this idea......

If I raise the opener as high as I could (probably leave an inch or two above the opener) but keep the part mounted above the door on the wall where it is and modify the tracks to follow the same angle as the relocated opener. It will at least give me room to jack up the front of my truck and create a more "open" feeling in the garage. What do you think?

 

[Bigwhite11]

A very very crude drawing but to kind of show what I'm talking about. the dashed line is the current track and the solid line is what I'm thinking of doing.

 

[wef]

A very very crude drawing but to kind of show what I'm talking about. the dashed line is the current track and the solid line is what I'm thinking of doing.

I just did that with two 9'wx8'h Wayne-Dalton 9100 doors. The rear of the track is 9'6" from the floor. Any higher and the rollers make an uncomfortable sound when they get to the curved track.

 

[AndyL]

A very very crude drawing but to kind of show what I'm talking about. the dashed line is the current track and the solid line is what I'm thinking of doing.

You could do pitch on the track, but I wouldn't recommend it with that wayne dalton door... You'd be better off doing a true high lift scenario, when you put pitch on the tracks only - you end up putting a stress on the first set of roller hinges - that they weren't really designed for - in a more standard door configuration, we can just bump up the gauge to accommodate the stress, but wayne dalton uses a proprietary hinge, so that's not possible.

And really - you're going to be paying for a torsion conversion (as you're needing different springs, ones that likely aren't available in the wayne dalton torque tubes) - so why not just do it right?

 

[pattenp]

Yep.. I had a spare one laying around. I was going to use a block of 2X4 but I think the bracket looks a little cleaner.

Hey pattenp - is that just a jamb bracket extension - that your using for mounting the cable tension monitor?

 

[AndyL]

Yep.. I had a spare one laying around. I was going to use a block of 2X4 but I think the bracket looks a little cleaner.

I'm going to steal that probably later this week

I'm still trying to come up with a reasonable workaround for the opposite problem, when the drywall sits prow of the framing...