Hi. I'm having a minor problem with my garage door, but one that my buyers want fixed before they'll close on my house. There is a gap between the top of my garage door and the rubber seal going across the top of the opening. It's been like that for years, and I never got around to fixing it. I've been told that I need to replace the trim and seal combination, which is cheap and easy to do. However, when I look at it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, and I don't see how replacing it is going to help anything. The problem seems to be that the space between the door and the top of the doorway, when the door is closed, is just wider than the space covered by the weather stripping. In fact, if I disengage the garage door opener, and slowly lower the door manually, I reach a point where the door is nearly closed, and the seal across the top looks just exactly like it's supposed to. Note that in this position, no light comes through either above or below the door -- the rubber seal at the bottom appears to be just touching the ground. However, I can still push the door down a little farther, and when I do, the top seal loses contact with the door and folds inward, opening a gap. Anyway, before I waste $20 and an hour or so replacing the weather strip on top of the door, I would like to know if this is even something that I should be doing. Maybe I need a thicker and stiffer seal on the bottom of the door, so that it doesn't close so far. Or maybe I don't need anything except an adjustment of my opener. Any ideas? Thanks. Tony

Liftmaster Model 1260. Manufactured 1993 My garage door worked just fine when I left for work this morning. Upon return it would not go up, just a few inches, stop, reveresed down and the motor continues to emit URRRRRRR... for about 30 seconds I removed the motor cover and found that the flat gear driven from the motor gear has been chewed up. Is this normal wear and tear or should I be looking for the possibility that the door froze up because of a bad chain sprocket? At first I was wondering if these gears are replacable but my opener has been in use for over 10 ten years so I'm thinking that I should replace the whole assembly. Thanks for any info.