How To Fix A Roll Up Garage Door Spring

To replace your roll up door spring you ll need.

How to fix a roll up garage door spring.

7 16 and 1 2 wrenches. On roll up doors the spring tension is controlled by a cable on a pulley. In the following section we ll show you how to replace a garage door opener. Once your spring is unwound move to the right side of your self storage roll up door.

Unscrew the appliance garage from the wall or upper cabinet and slide it away from its original location. The spring should be pinned to the shaft prior to rollup but not attached to the end plate. Hold the other end of the bar with one hand and loosen the lock nuts on the adjuster with a 3 8 inch open end wrench. Spring replacement with removal of door assembly.

Enter the unit with a ladder and manually roll the door up. Continue this process until the spring is loose and is not transferring its torque along the shaft to the pipe wrenches. Ratchet with 7 16 and 1 2 sockets. Tighten them as needed and then spray each of the garage door springs with spray lubricant to help decrease the friction of the new door springs.

3 8 and 5 16 nut drivers. Insert the end of a winding bar into the lower hole on the spring adjuster. Take the spring with you to the store so that you can choose the right size. Loosen the silver pipe wrench and pull down on the orange pipe wrench to loosen the spring more.

Once the door is rolled up the spring can be stretched to the end plate and bolted. A light gauge rollup door needs to actually be rolled up manually with the spring not yet attached. Also yank the cord and unplug the garage door opener before you start any garage door spring repair. Sometimes the problem with your garage door can be traced to the opener.

2 turn the garage upside down to locate the spring loaded door device at the top of the. This will prevent the door from shooting up and breaking your nose when you wind the new springs during an overhead garage door repair. You may need to put approximatelty one revolution on the spring before bolting. Then attach the springs.