Garage Door Hear Click And Not Open

Detach the opener by pulling the emergency handle downward.

Garage door hear click and not open.

When the door is lowered the spring winds up tightly creating a pulling force that helps lift the door up. If so and it is a chamberlain sears or liftmaster then the gear assembly inside is damaged. Shut off the power to the garage door opener. Without any warning the garage door will not open.

Usually located towards the front of your garage the manual release is that brightly colored cord hanging down within easy reach. The next step is to attempt to open your garage door manually. A power outage or surge particularly one that results from a storm may either cause a temporary malfunction or permanently damage the circuit board. A faulty circuit board will cause the garage door opener to make clicking sounds.

Check the door s electric eye. Turn the power back on and the door should open and close normally. Also the opener may work sometimes but on other occasions it does not respond. In this video i ll show you the issue with a garage door opener that makes noise but won t move.

Many garage doors have a powerful torsion spring located horizontally above the door. No movement of drive chain and sprocket. The first step is to locate the emergency release and disengage it do it only if the garage door is completely closed. This will determine if the issue is connected to the door itself or the opener.

The opener motor is fine but the shaft doesn t turn. Can t forcibly move drive chain either. Use a screwdriver to tighten the wire.