How To Change Out A Garage Door Spring

Extension garage door springs extension springs expand and contract when your garage door is lowered or raised by motor or by hand.

How to change out a garage door spring.

A couple of carabiners can. Test the spring by lifting the door about 3 feet. Based on a two spring system this is the safest type of garage door spring because the springs are situated inside the shaft. But we ll show you garage door spring replacement on the more common torsion springs the kind that mount on a bar above the garage door.

Garage door springs can be easily broken making the garage door difficult to open or even putting the vehicle or driver at risk by dropping on them. Lubricate the spring with garage door lubricant then remove the clamp from the garage door. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. In order to replace your garage door spring s you will need to find the current measurements in order to accurately replace the spring s.

One at the end of each spring and one at the top of the vertical door track they also have two cables on each side. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. Each door is different some need to be taken out when they are in the up position and some when they are in the down position.

Torque master torsion spring. If the door remains in place the replacement was a. One cable attaches to the bottom of the door runs up and over the pulley above the door and around the spring pulley and then attaches to the door track bracket. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story.

It is very important that there is no tension on the door when taking it apart. The doors with two springs are easy to replace. The torsion garage door springs will be located on either side of the center of the door frame while extension springs are on swing out arms placed on either side of the door itself.