How To Install Garage Door Springs

Since extension springs are determined by how much weight they each lift and the pulley system cuts this in half you need to replace your old springs with 200 pound extension springs.

How to install garage door springs.

The doors with two springs are easy to replace. Do not try to remove the extension spring that is not broken when the garage door is closed. 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. 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.

This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track. In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring. 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.

There are two types of garage door springs. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. Garage door springs come in two styles.