How To Properly Tension Garage Door Belt

Adjust the garage door opener mechanism.

How to properly tension garage door belt.

The average life of a belt drive garage door ranges from 7 to 10 years with some which will need belt changing after only a few years while others might not for nearly two decades it depends on the quality of the product. Program the garage door opener to recognize when your garage door is completely open. I finnaly tightned my whisper drive belt. Still working on the middle door bamg issue.

To the liftmaster 8500. A belt drive garage door opener uses a rubber belt instead of chain links to open the garage door this makes it relatively soundless compared to its chain counterpart. This is not a goodbye video i need to step back to figure out more content for my youtube channel. The manual does not indicate how to solve this problem.

Push the open set limit button then release to save the door s position as the new open limit setting. On the garage door motor there will be two knobs or dials to adjust. This video from sears partsdirect shows how to replace the belt on a belt drive garage door opener. The green indicator light will flash twice to confirm.

Brand new chamberlain garage door opener with excessive slack in belt drive. A belt drive garage door opener is one of the 3 types of door openers available to home owners the other two the chain driven and the screw drive openers have their own specific uses and application. If the tension is too loose the springs that help lift the. Since the garage door one of the largest moving parts in your home and an entry point for your home you want to feel confident that everything is going to work the way it should.

Hold down the open travel limit button until the door has raised all the way. I am sorry no more videos in 4k takes too long to edit. You need proper tension on a garage door to operate the door by hand or with an automatic opener.