How To Replace Garage Door Side Springs

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How to replace garage door side springs. Put on eye protection and leather gloves. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. 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. Replacing your own garage door springs takes only a little time and effort and can save you hundreds of dollars.

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. Position a sturdy ladder to the side of the springs rather than working directly in front of them for safety reasons. The springs extend along the shaft and work by twisting as the garage door closes by means of cables attached to each side of the lowest garage door panel. Lubricate the spring with garage door lubricant then remove the clamp from the garage door.

For doors with torsion springs located over the door spend the 50 or so to have a garage door professional release the tension. After your new door is installed remove the old stop material on the outside of the door and replace it with the type that has a rubber weatherstrip gasket available at home centers. Removing the old springs. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves.

This tension makes it easier to lift the garage door from its closed position. 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. Side mounted springs are long heavy springs mounted on each side of the upper garage door track.