How To Install Side Mounted Garage Door Springs

Roll the door up.

How to install side mounted garage door springs.

In this video you ll learn how to spot and replace a garage door extension spring. Be sure notto twist the garage door cable when reattaching the pulley. 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. Tie the extension spring to the roller track then detach the cable from the bottom bracket with a pair of pliers.

Use a c clamp on each track to hold the door up or vise grips. Side mounted extension springs are very easy to change quite safe compared to torsion drive since you work with no spring tension. A few years back i narrowly avoided being hit by a spring that snapped. Complete instruction to repair a broken garage door spring.

Home owners can replace an extension springs safely by following these steps. Try to get equal tension on each side just barely enough to hold the spring horizontal. Unhook the cable remove and replace the spring and hook the cable back up. One end is a fixedattachment to the garage door track or wood frame.

Check out my other. Release tension on side mounted springs. A garage door generally has two extension springs one on each side of the door and runs parallel to the track. 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.

There are two at either side of the door to help with the tensile strength of each spring even though the extension is separate from one another. Roll the door up. Simply disconnectthese two attachments and reattach the new spring in the same way. They extend when the door is lowered and closed and retract as it opens.

The other end is attached toa pulley through which the garage door cable is threaded.