How To Change Your Garage Door Spring

Disconnect the spring from the track bracket and the spring pulley.

How to change your garage door spring.

Replace extension garage door springs by following these steps. Slide the new spring onto the shaft. That said you should only lift the door with a second set of hands. Diy garage door torsion spring replacement step by step how to video.

If your garage door uses only one torsion spring lifting the door manually could be extremely difficult unless you are able to lift between 150 and 300 pounds depending on the weight of the door. Check that the wire is tight enough. This video will show you how to replace the extension springs on your garage door. If the wire starts to spin after a few turns you have placed the wrong garage door spring on the shaft.

Better yet call a garage door repair person to inspect and repair the door for. This video will show you how to replace the extension springs on your garage door. This allows you to move the original bar to repeat the process alternating the bars with each quarter turn. The bigger hole in the cone goes at the stationary end of the shaft.

Once you ve completed a quarter turn insert the other bar into a different hole in the cone and let the bar lever against the closed garage door to hold the spring tension. A safety cable is threaded through the spring to. Remove the wrong spring and place on the correct one.