How To Fix A Roll Up Garage Door Spring

A light gauge rollup door needs to actually be rolled up manually with the spring not yet attached.

How to fix a roll up garage door spring.

Loosen the silver pipe wrench and pull down on the orange pipe wrench to loosen the spring more. Once your spring is unwound move to the right side of your self storage roll up door. To replace your roll up door spring you ll need. Enter the unit with a ladder and manually roll the door up.

7 16 and 1 2 wrenches. Sometimes the problem with your garage door can be traced to the opener. 2 turn the garage upside down to locate the spring loaded door device at the top of the. Spring replacement with removal of door assembly.

Unscrew the appliance garage from the wall or upper cabinet and slide it away from its original location. Continue this process until the spring is loose and is not transferring its torque along the shaft to the pipe wrenches. Tighten them as needed and then spray each of the garage door springs with spray lubricant to help decrease the friction of the new door springs. 3 8 and 5 16 nut drivers.

As the door is rolled down the spring will be charged. Then attach the springs. Ratchet with 7 16 and 1 2 sockets. On roll up doors the spring tension is controlled by a cable on a pulley.

Once the door is rolled up the spring can be stretched to the end plate and bolted. The spring should be pinned to the shaft prior to rollup but not attached to the end plate. Clamp a locking pliers or a c clamp to the track just above one of the rollers. This will prevent the door from shooting up and breaking your nose when you wind the new springs during an overhead garage door repair.

To adjust the tension pull the cable and reknot the end to shorten or lengthen the cable. Insert the end of a winding bar into the lower hole on the spring adjuster. You may need to put approximatelty one revolution on the spring before bolting. Hold the other end of the bar with one hand and loosen the lock nuts on the adjuster with a 3 8 inch open end wrench.