You may have done this in the case of a burned out motor or a power outage but remember you had the help of the extension springs before.
My garage door spring broke will my opener burn up.
Garage doors are heavy and without a spring load they can cause injury if they fall.
We recommend having a garage door service company repair broken springs on the garage door before.
If your garage door goes up and down in a jerky motion you might have one broken spring on a two spring system.
You will have to open the door manually.
A garage door that has a broken spring has nothing to support its weight.
The garage door is used.
Never rely on a door opener to open the door with a broken spring.
Garage door opener with a broken spring as the extra weight of the garage door with a broken spring.
This time you will need to lift the door s entire weight.
Utilizing the wrong size spring or springs can cause serious damage to the garage door and its components including the electric garage door opener.
Replacing garage door springs is not a do it yourself project replacement requires special tools and techniques to prevent injury.
Operating your garage door with a broken spring commonly results in one of these problems the garage door panels can cave in your opener may break a gear or burn out the chain or belt may break or the trolly may sheer off.
Heavy garage door by hand and burn out the opener using it to try to open a door with a broken spring.
Replacing the broken spring s will keep your garage door system working.
Disengage the door from the opener.
Can burn out the motor capacitor or other parts of the automatic garage door opener.