Garage Door Opener Track Bends

The garage door opener keeps kicking the chain off the drive sproket when i close it.

Garage door opener track bends.

Any tips on how to correct this. Bent track the tracks of a garage door are necessary to keep the door aligned correctly and allow it to move smoothly. Then there should be 2 sets of screw adjustments usually one on the rear and one set on the side. Go to your local home improvement store and buy some angle iron and lower the power head.

Your opener appears to be installed almost level with the garage door rather than angled backward. Garage door opener rail bows little. See the section in your manual titled position the opener. It opens fine but constantly.

I ve spent the last two weeks trying to fix this problem but i don t think i have an answer for it. If you look at the rail you can see it flex bend up. How to fix a garage door that has bent tracks step 1. Clamp a pair of vise grips around the front edge of the horizontal track directly under the bottom door roller.

If the tracks are bent the movement will be restricted and the garage door will not operate properly. Open the garage door until the bottom of the door is past the seam between the vertical track and the curve of. The track allows the garage door to move smoothly. If the track gets bent this movement is impeded and the door will not open properly.

When this happens it is important to leave the door alone and call a professional garage door company. That will cause the jerky noisy operation when you close the door. My chamberlain garage door opener rail flexes. Please see video attached there is a little flex bow action towards the end of travel as the door weather seal closes.