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SAME-DAY SERVICE Mon–Fri 8am–5pm | Sat by appointment
If your door will not open, you cannot see a spring anywhere, and the name on the door or the opener says Wayne Dalton, you almost certainly have a TorqMaster. The spring is hidden inside a tube above the door. This page explains why we convert them rather than repair them, and what that costs.
Updated 2026
The tube system comes out and a standard torsion spring setup goes in: springs, tube, drums, cables and bearing plates matched to your door. That is the whole job, quoted before we start.
The parts are hard to get, the winding tool is proprietary, and the design fails the same way again. A repair puts you back where you started. A conversion leaves you with a system any garage door company can service.
Look above the door. A normal torsion setup has one or two exposed coil springs on a shaft. A TorqMaster has a plain steel tube with no visible spring, and a small winding unit — a cone with a bolt head or a gear — at one end. Newer TorqMaster Plus units have a black plastic cap on the end.
When one fails there is usually no bang, because the spring is enclosed. The door simply goes heavy or will not lift, and the opener strains against it. If that sounds like yours, do not keep running the opener.
It is a bigger job than a spring swap, which is why it costs more. This is what actually happens on the day.
The enclosed spring is unwound safely with the correct tool and the tube, end brackets and winding unit come off. Nothing in that assembly is reused.
A standard shaft goes across the opening on new end bearing plates and a center bearing. This is the backbone of the system and it is sized to your door’s width and weight.
Torsion springs are chosen for the door’s exact weight, not a generic size. New cable drums and cables go on because the TorqMaster versions do not fit a standard shaft.
The springs are wound to hold the door’s weight so it sits balanced at any height. This is the part that makes the opener last, because it is no longer lifting the door on its own.
The opener’s travel and force limits are reset for the newly balanced door, and the safety reverse is tested before we leave.
✓ A damaged or bent header that needs new mounting points
✓ A door that came off track when the spring failed
✓ Worn rollers or hinges found while the door is apart
✓ An opener that was burned out trying to lift the dead door
We look at the door, show you what we find, and quote the whole job before any work starts. The starting price covers a straightforward conversion on a sound door; anything on that list gets discussed first, not added afterwards.
Across League City and its neighborhoods, plus Friendswood and Pearland. Wayne Dalton doors are common in subdivisions built in the 2000s, so we see a lot of these.
If your door has a visible spring and it snapped, that is a different job: see broken spring repair and our spring replacement pricing. Car stuck inside? Emergency repair covers what to do right now.
What people ask us about Wayne Dalton doors that have stopped lifting.
A spring system where the torsion spring is enclosed inside a steel tube above the door instead of sitting exposed on a shaft. Wayne Dalton fitted them to a great many doors, particularly in subdivisions built through the 2000s.
It can be done, but we do not recommend it. The replacement spring is hard to source, the winding tool is proprietary, and the design tends to fail the same way again. Converting to a standard torsion system costs more once and then any garage door company can service it.
Conversions start at $695. That covers removing the tube system and fitting a new torsion shaft, springs sized to your door, drums, cables and bearing plates, then balancing the door and resetting the opener. A damaged header, an off-track door, or worn rollers found while the door is apart can add to it, and we discuss those before touching them.
There is usually no bang, because the spring is enclosed. The door goes heavy or will not lift, and the opener strains or gives up partway. If you lift the door by hand with the opener released and it feels like dead weight, the spring has gone.
On almost any sectional door, yes. The shaft, springs and drums are sized to the door, not to the brand. We check the header has sound mounting points on the first visit.
Usually two to three hours in a single visit. Our trucks carry the shaft, drums and common spring sizes, so it is rarely a two-trip job.
Tell us the door will not lift and there is no spring you can see. That is usually all we need to know what we are bringing.
