Warning – Wayne-Dalton 8000 SERIES 46 User Manual

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Please Do Not Return This Product To The Store. Contact your local Wayne-Dalton dealer. To find your local Wayne-Dalton dealer, refer to your

local yellow pages/business listings or go to the

Find a Dealer section online at www.wayne-dalton.com

Tools Needed:

Rear Support Continued...

horizontal tracks to the rear supports with

5/16”-18 x 1-1/4” hex head bolts and nuts

(may not be supplied). horizontal tracks

must be level and parallel with door.

NOTE: If rear supports are to be installed

over drywall, use 5/16” x 2” hex head lag

screws.

NOTE: If an

idrive

opener will be

installed, position horizontal tracks one

hole above level when securing it to rear

supports.

Adjust weather seal (if necessary). Now

permanently attach the weather seal to

both door jambs and header. (Temporarily

attached in PREPARING ThE OPENING on

page 10.) Avoid pushing weather seal too

tightly against face of door.

PRIOR TO WINDING OR MAkING

ADjuSTMENTS TO ThE SPRINGS,

ENSuRE yOu’RE WINDING IN ThE

PROPER DIRECTION AS STATED IN

ThE INSTALLATION INSTRuCTIONS.

OThERWISE, ThE SPRING fITTINGS

MAy RELEASE fROM SPRING

If NOT WOuND IN ThE PROPER

DIRECTION AND COuLD RESuLT IN

SEVERE OR fATAL INjuRy.

Now, lift door and check it’s balance.

Adjust, if door lifts by itself (hard to pull

down) or if door is difficult to lift (easy to

pull down). Anytime spring adjustments

are made you must loosen the lock nuts

to begin with and retighten both lock nuts

afterwards. To adjust spring(s), only add or

remove 1/4 turn on the counter at a time.

Adjust both sides equally.

IMPORTANT:

DO NOT ADD OR REMOVE

MORE ThAN 1 SPRING TuRN fROM

SPECIfIED AMOuNT. If ThE DOOR STILL

DOES NOT OPERATE EASILy, LOWER

ThE DOOR INTO ThE CLOSED POSITION,

uNWIND SPRING(S) TO zERO, AND

REChECk ThE fOLLOWING ITEMS:

1. Check the door for level.

2. Check the

TorqueMaster

Spring

Tube

and flagangles for level and

plumb.

3. Check the distance between the

flagangles - must be door width

plus 3-3/8” to 3-1/2”.

4. Check the counterbalance cables

for equal tension - adjust if

necessary.

5. Rewind the spring(s).

6. Make sure door isn’t rubbing on

jambs.

NOTE:

As a safety feature, the right hand

end bracket cannot be disassembled

for service until the spring is completely

unwound and the counter cover reads

zero.

After door installation is completed, refer

to the

idrive

owner’s manual.

PERfORATED ANGLE

(3) 5/16”
BOLTS & NuTS

hORIzONTAL TRACk

BOLT MuST ExTEND INTO

ThE TRACk TO SERVE AS

A ROLLER STOP

PERfERATED

BRACE

PERfERATED ANGLE -

BOLTED uSING

(2) 5/16” x 1-5/8” hEx
hEAD LAG SCREWS TO

CEILING MEMBER AND

PARALLEL TO WIDTh Of

DOOR

SOuND fRAMING MEMBERS

hORIzONTAL TRACk

ANGLE
BRACE

BOLT MuST ExTEND INTO

ThE TRACk TO SERVE AS

A ROLLER STOP

jAMB

WEAThER

SEAL

PERMANENTLy ATTAChED

WEAThER SEAL