Sears garage door opener will not stay shut

Get your family out of that house NOW. It's haunted.

About the only thing you can do is to make sure the wires to the top and bottom sensors are both secure. My guess is the control unit is dead.

Maybe the door is binding along the sides. Or there could be dirt built up that prevents it from fully closing. Any resistance will cause the safety mechanism to trip and reverse the travel.

Sounds like the down limit is defective. The contact "ear" has broken off the limit switch assembly. Take the cover off and you will see a wire hanging loose at the limit switch assemby with the ear still attached. This is why the unit doesn't stop at the down position and why the adjustment doesn't do anything.

The part number is 41D3452 on openers made from 1986 to the present / openers made before 1986 uses part number 41B2417.

You will find the part at

Rich ==================================== Garage Door Parts, LLC

On 15 May 2006 04:07:59 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@mc.net wrote (with possible editing):

Another possibility. If it's a chain drive, you may find that one of the two limit rollers clamped to the chain is missing. One of my openers has that happen regularly. It is very close to the rafters and one of the limit rollers regularly bounces up, hits a rafter, and falls off the chain. Until I get around to replacing it, I just wait until it closes, then immediately hit the button. Note, you have to use a manual button, the remote doesn't work.

Are you sure there's nothing (like a broom handle) getting stuck as the door comes down? That was happening to me last week, and it was almost impossible to see even standing right next to the darned thing.