How To Tension Garage Roller Door Springs
Close the garage door and disconnect your garage door opener.
How to tension garage roller door springs. Place the second winding bar in the hole that s now facing the floor and vertical to the door to help you hold everything in place while you return the set screws to the holes and tighten them down snugly. This is accomplished by opening the garage door as fully as possible until it hits the stop bolt on the track. Disengage the garage door from the motor or in other words put the door into manual mode lift the garage door until the bottom of the door is roughly chest height. To adjust your garage door s side mounted springs first open your door fully and secure it in place with a c clamp below the bottom roller.
You must release the tension on the garage door springs before attempting adjustment or replacement. Close your garage door. Unplug the opener and pull the emergency release cord up and down to disconnect the door from the opener. Open the door fully to relieve the tension on the hinge springs at each side of the door opening.
Install a vertical two by four brace at the outer edge of the door to prevent the door from falling. Remove the spring hook and adjust the tension. Follow these to test the tension of your garage door spring. To adjust a door that can t stay open bring the first winding bar up to a 90 degree angle with the garage door this is a quarter turn.
Open the door to release the tension on the springs. Hold the garage door in this position by attaching a c clamp to the track at a point below the lowest door roller wheel. Once your garage door is secured remove the spring hook from the track hanger which will allow you to move the hook and adjust the spring s tension. Open the garage door fully.
Clamp the garage door in place with a c clamp above the bottom roller. Find the two springs and corresponding adjustment screws collars these should be along the shaft. How to test the garage door spring tension. Here are the steps to adjust common torsion spring mechanisms.
This is how to loosen or tighten the tension on a roll up door.