How To Change Garage Door Spring

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How to change garage door spring.

Replace torsion garage door springs by following these steps. Replacing torsion springs is the more difficult and potentially dangerous task. Click to watch get the official all in one kit and save big 5 star rat. 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.

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. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. Our springs are made to be a bit flexible so you don t have to get it to an exact measurement. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them.

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 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.