How To Change Out A Garage Door Spring

Based on a two spring system this is the safest type of garage door spring because the springs are situated inside the shaft.

How to change out a garage door spring.

It is very important that there is no tension on the door when taking it apart. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story. 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. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more.

Test the spring by lifting the door about 3 feet. If the door remains in place the replacement was a. If a door has tension springs on them it should be taken down when it is in the up position. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves.

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. Garage door springs can be easily broken making the garage door difficult to open or even putting the vehicle or driver at risk by dropping on them. 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. Each door is different some need to be taken out when they are in the up position and some when they are in the down position.

There are two types of garage door springs. A couple of carabiners can. The doors with two springs are easy to replace. Torque master torsion spring.

A pair of new springs cost about 25. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. The torsion garage door springs will be located on either side of the center of the door frame while extension springs are on swing out arms placed on either side of the door itself.