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FAAC Gate Motor Replacement: The North Richland Hills Owner’s Guide

We stock and install FAAC-compatible gate motor replacements for North Richland Hills homeowners, with typical installed costs running $650 to $1,400 depending on the model and whether the arm, capacitor, or control board went with it. We carry the most common FAAC swing and slide motor parts on the truck, so most replacements in North Richland Hills happen the same day we diagnose the failure. What usually brings people to this page is a gate that quit mid-cycle, a motor that hums but won’t move the leaf, or an opener that trips the breaker every time the sun hits 100 degrees – and in Tarrant County, that’s a solid five months of the year.

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Here’s the thing about FAAC motors in Texas heat: the hydraulic models cook. The oil thins, seals start weeping, and the motor works harder until the thermal overload kills it. We’ll get into which models do what below, but if you’re standing in the driveway right now looking at a dead FAAC, call us at (817) 241-4067 and we’ll talk through what you’re seeing.

Which FAAC Models This Applies To

FAAC divides its gate operators into two families: hydraulic swing arms (the 400, 402, 412, 415, 422, and the newer S-series like the S418 and S450) and electromechanical slide motors (the 740, 741, 844, and the C-series). North Richland Hills has plenty of both, because the older neighborhoods off Smithfield Road tend to have swing gates on brick columns, while the newer acreage properties east toward Hurst line have slide gates on steel track. Each family fails differently, and the replacement part isn’t interchangeable between them.

The quickest way to identify what you have is the data plate on the motor body. FAAC stamps the model number there, along with the voltage (115V for most residential, sometimes 230V on larger properties). If the plate is sun-blasted and unreadable, we match by the arm’s shape and the connector style. One gotcha we see a lot in North Richland Hills: a 402 and a 412 look nearly identical, but the 412 uses a different capacitor value, and installing a 402-spec capacitor in a 412 burns the start winding within a season. On the parts side, we stock genuine FAAC where it matters – capacitors, limit switches, and the hydraulic pump seals especially – and we use quality aftermarket gears and chains where the OEM markup doesn’t buy you anything. We’ll tell you which is which before we install it. We’re an independent shop, not affiliated with FAAC, which means our recommendation is based on what works, not what a distributor wants us to push.

Signs Your FAAC Gate Motor Replacement Is Failing

• The gate starts, then stutters and stops halfway. On hydraulic FAACs this is usually low fluid or a failing pump. On electromechanical slides it’s a capacitor losing its ability to hold a charge, and the motor simply can’t finish the stroke.
• You hear a click and nothing moves. That click is the start capacitor attempting to fire, or a thermal overload opening because the motor is dragging. In North Richland Hills summers, an overheated FAAC will often sit dead for 20 minutes, then work again when it cools. It’s not healing – it’s dying on a schedule.
• The arm moves but the gate leaf barely swings. On a 400-series FAAC, that’s the internal bypass valve or worn pump piston. By the time you see this, the motor has been compensating for months, and the replacement is the fix, not a repair.
• The gate opens fine but slams or won’t close fully. The motor may be fine, but the internal limit switches or encoder are failing. We can sometimes replace just the switch, which is a $90 part instead of a full motor – if you catch it before the gate runs itself out of alignment and wrecks the hinge brackets.
• Your breaker trips when the gate tries to start. That’s a shorted winding or a capacitor blowing. Don’t reset the breaker and try again – the next attempt can weld the contacts in the control board, and now you’re replacing two expensive components instead of one.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In North Richland Hills, a FAAC gate motor replacement generally falls between $650 and $1,400 installed. The spread isn’t padding – it’s driven by what actually failed. A straightforward 400-series motor swap with a new capacitor runs on the lower end. A 740 slide motor with a damaged gear rack and worn limit assembly runs toward the top. Either way, you’ll get a written line-item price before any work starts, and no number changes when the job is done.

Every replacement we do includes the new motor, fresh mounting hardware, a cycle test under load, and adjustment of the open and close limits so the gate doesn’t bang the stops. We also check the power draw at startup – a motor that tests fine but pulls high amps is going to fail young, and we’d rather tell you that at install than wave goodbye and wait for the call. The work carries our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, and if anything’s not right, one phone call brings me back.

DIY or Call Us?

A FAAC gate motor replacement involves line voltage wiring, a metal gate leaf that can weigh 300 to 800 pounds, and pinch points that don’t care how careful you are. The capacitor inside these units holds a charge even with power cut, and hydraulic models are under pressure. This is genuinely the kind of job where a wrong move puts you in the ER or the gate through the back of your truck.

What you can safely do is confirm the power to the outlet is good, check that the breaker isn’t tripped, and tell us exactly what the gate does when you press the button – that description saves us a diagnosis trip. But the replacement itself should be done by someone who has done a few hundred of them. Hal Gatewood has been fixing gates in North Richland Hills since 2001, and he trained on this kind of mechanical and fabrication work at Tarrant County College’s northeast campus before that. Call (817) 241-4067 and we’ll get it handled without you touching a wire.

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If your FAAC gate motor is failing, call (817) 241-4067 for a free estimate. A live person in North Richland Hills answers, not a voicemail and not a call center three states away. We’ll quote the replacement in writing before any work starts, and the name on the shop is the same name on your invoice: Hal Gatewood. If I hand you my number, use it – that’s what it’s there for.

Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner, Gatewood Fence & Gate at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving North Richland Hills and nearby areas.