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Default Crooked garage door

On Oct 25, 5:11 pm, "S H O P D O G"
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OF course since I'm not there this is all shooting in the dark but, how bout
the rollers on that side. Are they all rolling easily? ANy of them hanging
up?
What about equal and opposite reaction, maybe the other sides tension is off
a bit?

I have old wooden doors right now (getting ready to changover to new
ones shortly) when the right door cocks I just give it a "jerk" to the side
and it levels out.

What about where the turn is? are the turns level with each other? I
think thats where my problems lies, the tracks are a bit loose and when the
one side moves is when it "cocks"?

I hope I'm helping, if I could see it I may be a better help

RIch



Are you sure the new springs are of equal force? You could try
switching from one side to the other. Or buy another set. Also you
can set one to have more initial tension than the other, but it sounds
like you tried that already. But first, I'd set the tracks to
somewhere in the mid range. You seem to have gone from very close to
the door, to the other extreme. Other than cocking and binding, is
the door fairly well balanced through it's range?

I'd also have someone manually work the door while you look closely at
the various areas to see if you can see what is going wrong.