How To Install A Torsion Bar Garage Door

This video will show you how to repair a mis aligned garage door cable.

How to install a torsion bar garage door.

It is important that the torsion spring assembly be firmly and securely attached to the frame of the garage. Flying off can damage cars other property or even a person who is in the garage when it happens. Diy garage door repair and save money. What was once a job exclusively for trained garage door professionals clopay s ez set torsion spring system makes torsion spring installation faster and easier for the do it yourselfer.

Garage door springs come in two styles. In the end scott got the door that he wanted installed along with a great liftmaster garage door opener. Winding bars are available at most hardware stores 4. Installation of rear torsion spring system.

Step 1 preparing the door frame. If your garage door cable is at an angle or l. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story. When torsion springs break they don t fly off like extension springs can.

Part 1 of 2. 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. In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring. This oem spring replacement system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process.

Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track. After the plug reaches the mark continue pulling the bar off the door and back toward the middle of the door with your left hand. Just a video showing how to change out broken garage door torsion springs with new ones.