How To Repalce Garage Door Springs

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.

How to repalce garage door springs. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. 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.

Part 1 of 2. Removing the old springs. Replacing your own garage door springs takes only a little time and effort and can save you hundreds of dollars. Replacing torsion springs is the more difficult and potentially dangerous task.

Our springs are made to be a bit flexible so you don t have to get it to an exact measurement. Attempt the following steps only if you are a very. 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. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves.