How to Diagnose a Broken Garage Door Spring (Wayne Dalton)

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You may not know you have a broken garage door spring until you start have issues with your garage door opener. In my case my garage door opener started to show signs of straining and my garage door started to bow near the up from the extra weight. The springs inside of the tension tubing is suppose to lighten the load of the garage door, but when it breaks, it can be a real headache. In this video I use a scale to weight the door with the tension turned down on each side of my double garage door separately. Since lessening the tension on the right side does not affect the weight of the door, it's safe to say that the spring is broken. I guess I will be doing another video in the near future on how to replace a broken spring.

[@l337pwnage]

Your door should weigh 0. 60# either means a broken spring, the wrong springs, or you have less than half the needed winds on them. If your opener is lifting that, you need to reduce the output of the opener before something breaks.

[@dougb70]

you can also just lift on one side and see if that assist works. If so, that is the side that is broken. You'll get a sense right away which side is broken.

[@oldfatandtired6406]

No you cant

[@dougb70]

@@oldfatandtired6406 you can unless the other side unwinds. It is very heavy though, but I was able to lift even a double door with 1 spring. If both are broken, you probably can't.

[@oldfatandtired6406]

The torquemaster system works a singular lift system. The torsion tube is designed to lift both ends of a door equally and at he same time. If one spring in the torquemaster is broke, you basically are trying to lift the door with half the force intended.

[@dougb70]

@@oldfatandtired6406 exactly. That is why you're able to tell which spring is broken.

[@dougb70]

I don't try to lift the door all the way. Just enough to feel the weight.

[@sidallen1324]

Convert that silly ststem to regular torsion set up, i convert em all, or I won't touch them

[@csaleen302]

I just bought a house with this junk as setup on 4 garage doors. Time to start replacing them all. We used to have these at work and they are trash to put it nice

[@johnw2167]

​@@csaleen302 Had my Wayne Dalton door installed in 1996 replaced springs this week 26 years no problems 8' x 16' insulated door. It is a detached garage but door doesn't go up and down all day either.