How To Change Out A Garage Door Spring

If a door has tension springs on them it should be taken down when it is in the up position.

How to change out a garage door spring.

Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. A couple of carabiners can. A pair of new springs cost about 25. Test the spring by lifting the door about 3 feet.

The doors with two springs are easy to replace. If the door remains in place the replacement was a. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. Lubricate the spring with garage door lubricant then remove the clamp from the garage door.

Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. There are two types of garage door springs. Extension garage door springs extension springs expand and contract when your garage door is lowered or raised by motor or by hand. Torque master torsion spring.

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. 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. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story. 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.

It is very important that there is no tension on the door when taking it apart. 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. 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.