qwiketz

Hi guys. I have thebheight but the track of garage door is in the way of the lift. If the track followed the roofline, I'd be great. The 90' bend about 7' up were replaced with a 45', I'd be good. Anyone do this?

99Z28LS1

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I do residential garage doors. You could do a vertical lift meaning the tracks obviously go vertical instead of horizontal. That would mean that you have a tall ceiling. If not, getting the proper track and spring set up to match what you want could be expensive to change if you had to pay someone to do it. Changing the angle of the tracks would change everything that makes the door come up stable. Hope this sheds a little light on the subject

qwiketz

Thanks for the information about the garage doors. I love to figure out a way to get the garage door open with the car up on the lift. That would increase the garage from three cars to four cars

Skeet12

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I did this when I got my lift. My garage ceiling height is 12 foot but my door WAS in the way. I added parts to make the door hug the front wall and then stay close to the ceiling. Go to ddmgaragedoors.com, there is a DIY high lift conversion article to follow. I bought all my parts from him. Works great! You can do it safely.

ricks02z

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I did it on one of my doors. Its a 10'x8' with operator and 10' walls.Call a local garage door co. They should be able to help you. Rick

The Alchemist

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A couple things to make it work. One, it needs to have a torsion spring setup and not an extension spring. As mentioned above, there are kits that convert it to a high lift setup. Also, you can't use a normal garage door opener that's usually located on the ceiling. You have to go with a wall mounted unit.

Here's a good link and where I got everything I needed to convert my garage door.
http://www.diygaragerepair.com/High-...rack-s/345.htm

SWEET98SS

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I did the same as skeet. i paid $600 to have my track for my door raised up to go along the ceiling, this included the track and a torsion spring, my door did not have a torsion spring where if you turn the shaft, the door will go up. This also included installed a liftmaster shaft mount garage door opener. So I have about $900 into my setup. Its well worth it, I can have my door open when my camaro is on the lift, makes for alot more room. My other cars I can get up about 3 feet before it will hit the door when its open. I have the maxx jaxx lift.

jimmyblue

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Roll-up industrial doors always seemed like a good
idea to me.

The Alchemist

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Here's an old picture, but it shows how I can still open the garage door with the t/a on the lift in the highest position with no issues.


And here's when my parents came over and evacuated from the hurricane.

Kory 88Iroc Lt1

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good info. I have to modify my door since I raised my ceiling 2.5 feet.
Kory

chevrunner21

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my buddy just got roll doors for his garage, plenty of room now.