{"id":516,"date":"2019-04-08T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.dynu.com\/ngwp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:43:41","slug":"garage-door-opener-all-busted-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Garage Door Opener all busted up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several months ago, I replaced the double car garage door&#8217;s opener, it wasn&#8217;t too hard as I used the existing mounting hardware from the old opener. I followed the instructions, pinned up the new rail and lifted the motor unit to the hangers. I had a working garage door in about 3 hours. But as luck has it, the other garage door opener, (which also has a date stamp of 96), started to make some funky sounds and then bam, failed the same way. The drive gear has worn to nothing. Trying to stretch a opener replacement, I thought let&#8217;s take it apart and see if it&#8217;s salvageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon inspection, it was the drive gear that has worn down to nothing. I looked online and it seems to be a common happening. I bought a new gear on Amazon and thought I was good to go. The part came in and it is affixed via two roll pins. I found a 5\/32&#8243; punch and started to knock a roll pin out. It would not budge. Urgh\u2026 what should be Plan B\u2026 It&#8217;s the Z420 all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well fast forward to when I fixed the drive gear. I dremeled a chunk out of the old gear so it could be removed without the pins out of the way\u2026 then with just the roll pins extruding from the axle\u2026 I was able to hammer the roll pins without the punch with a ball-peen hammer. They budged like it was nothing. I put on a new gear and slapped the door opener back together. Done! or so i thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.dynu.com\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerRollPinPress-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerRollPinPress-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerRollPinPress-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerRollPinPress-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerRollPinPress.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressing the roll pin back through the shaft\u2026 No wonder I couldn\u2019t punch it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opener made tons of noise, plus the travel stops didn\u2019t work on the way down\u2026 which is not okay. I have to figure out why. I looked for differences between the belt drive shaft I put in versus the old chain drive shaft I took out. There seems to be missing\u2026 metal in the top bushing. So luckily I also bought a parts kit, which i was hoping I could have just returned but I needed a part or actually replaced all the parts (might as well).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.dynu.com\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerBushingCompare-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerBushingCompare-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerBushingCompare-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerBushingCompare-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerBushingCompare.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New bushing versus\u2026 well what\u2019s left of the old one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end, it\u2019s still not what I was hoping for (still more noise than I would like). We\u2019ll see how much life my rebuild will give me and then I\u2019ll just replace the entire opener in a more convenient time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.dynu.com\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerDriveShaft.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerDriveShaft.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GarageOpenerDriveShaft-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaft and its parts\u2026 the second from the bottom is the \u201cbushing\u201d that looks more like a second washer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago, I replaced the double car garage door&#8217;s opener, it wasn&#8217;t too hard as I used the existing mounting hardware from the old opener. I followed the instructions, pinned up the new rail and lifted the motor unit to the hangers. I had a working garage door in about 3 hours. But as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-ownership","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngfamily.freeddns.org\/ngwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}