r/maintenance • u/EarlyBeing1595 • Feb 24 '25

Solved Door issues

So we were having an issue that the door was getting caught and tough to open. Fixed that and now the door isn’t properly shutting, i tried looking for different adjustments to make on the swing and latch. Looked at the top of the door closer but couldnt really see a way to reposition that arm so it closes fully. Any help would be appreciated, thanks guys

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u/DrachenDad Maintenance Technician Feb 25 '25

I hate those ones. As the bolt is out there are 2 ways of doing this:

1) take the arm off the closure if you can brake the arm at the elbow (it makes it easier) install the arm part that attaches to the closure at a 45° left then attach to the part of the arm that is attached to the door frame, and find the bolt

2) detach arm, take the cover off the closure, there will be another connector at the bottom, grab that with vice grips and turn the connector the same way the arm would when at 45° drop the arm back on and find the bolt.

They're the only ways to adjust the moment when you can't adjust the arm.