Garage Door Pulley Not Working

Try using your remote to open or close your door to determine if the reprogramming was successful.

Garage door pulley not working.

Garage door opener systems must be maintained to provide smooth operation throughout the years. One of the more difficult problems for do it yourselfers to diagnose is a worn cable pulley on an extension spring door. Maybe the garage door opens halfway and either stops or closes. Click on a problem below to see the possible causes and solutions.

One major cause of failure for garage doors using extension springs is that the pulleys wear out. It s also possible that the circuit breaker fuse or gfci outlet powering the door opener circuit has tripped or burned. Then within 30 seconds hold the button on your remote for three seconds or until garage door opener s lights flash or the led light on your opener blinks. If you hear a scraping noise that could be a worn ball bearing is causing the pulley to grind the track angle.

If pressing the button on your garage door s remote control doesn t work check the batteries first. Usually the ball bearings break down causing the pulley to scrape against the track angle or the rivets fail and the pulley splits as in the picture above causing the door cable to stick. Please help support my channel by using my link to. There are of course many other problems that can keep your garage door from functioning properly.

As an amazon affiliate i get commissions from purchases made from links in the description of my videos. To reprogram your garage door remote locate then press your opener s learn button. Simple but true the remote transmitter needs power to send a signal to your opener. As with many such problems the most common problem is the simplest one the motor unit has been unplugged.

When a garage door fails to open and close properly the cause is often a worn pulley.