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| ematulac |
 Jun 3 2005, 05:27 PM
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914 addict  Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 24-November 03 From: Palmdale, CA Member No.: 1,382  |
My 914 won't start, my neighbor is giving me issues, and my garage door is broken ... all happened in a span of 10 minutes when I came home today. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif)
Anyways, the torsion spring on my garage door broke. The part itself is about $50, and it's $185 to have someone come and fix it. Anyone know if this is something I can fix without hours of hard work? |
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| campbellcj |
Jun 3 2005, 11:46 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,547 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California 
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Recently I had a garage door SNAFU; apparently one spring was crusty and rusty and was binding on the shaft. One of the tension cables snapped, the door went off-kilter, and then at least one hinge snapped and a couple others bent. Fortunately my car was in the driveway outside.
Definitely a job I farmed out to the pros; it was several hundred bucks but I had both new springs, both cables, all the outer (load bearing) hinges, and all the rollers replaced with higher grade parts. He also checked the opener and lubed up everything. He was finished in like an hour -- woulda probably taken me all weekend. I figure we will be in this house at least a few more years and the door goes up and down a bunch of times each day... |
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ematulac OT Garage doors Jun 3 2005, 05:27 PM
Joe Sharp Go to Lowes, they have all the hardware and instru... Jun 3 2005, 05:36 PM ematulac Different kind of spring ... I've changed that... Jun 3 2005, 05:40 PM ematulac pics would help ... Jun 3 2005, 05:41 PM ematulac another Jun 3 2005, 05:41 PM ematulac I scheduled to have the repair person come out on ... Jun 3 2005, 05:55 PM Grimstead I wish I saw this sooner. I just went through the... Jun 3 2005, 06:16 PM ematulac ... Jun 3 2005, 06:48 PM Grimstead Yeah, at 159 I didn't want to do it myself eit... Jun 3 2005, 06:51 PM iamchappy Ive done many over the years, made my own rods to ... Jun 3 2005, 06:55 PM Grimstead After seeing how it was done, I would try it mysel... Jun 3 2005, 07:02 PM GWN7 You can get the van out of the garage by lifting t... Jun 3 2005, 10:16 PM jasons Its not hard to fix those, but if you F* up in the... Jun 3 2005, 11:07 PM rhodyguy be very careful when dealing with the torsion spri... Jun 4 2005, 07:38 AM Bleyseng You can open the door by pulling on the red rope t... Jun 4 2005, 08:42 AM
campbellcj I forgot to mention -- our door is WAAAAAAAAAAAAY ... Jun 4 2005, 02:51 PM |
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