How To Fix Roll Up Garage Door Spring

Spring replacement without removal of door assembly.

How to fix roll up garage door spring.

Remove the cotter pin from the end of the axle pipe. 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. Snap a locking pliers onto the torsion tube to lock it into place while you tighten the drums. If there s an extra sheet then remove the curtain from the guides and roll the door all the way down to expose the broken spring.

If you have gapped springs make sure that you take the compressed length and that you completely compress the spring when taking the 10 and 20 coil measurements. Loosen the silver pipe wrench and pull down on the orange pipe wrench to loosen the spring more. Rotate the drum to wind the cable into the winding grooves. Pull the cable as tight as possible before tightening the setscrews.

Loosen set screw on spring s mark the spring with a welders chaulk or marker line from collar to collar flanges turn spring in direction of coil usually toward ceiling roof do not turn backwards as this will make sring climbe the collars. All of the tracks will need to be pulled down shaped and either replaced or remounted from scratch to fit the wooden sides of the garage again. Clamp door with 2 c lamps vise grips tight on track over a roller to prevent door from lifting clamp regular vise grips to shaft after you turn shaft to make cables tight. Once your spring is unwound move to the right side of your self storage roll up door.

This video applies t. Continue this process until the spring is loose and is not transferring its torque along the shaft to the pipe wrenches. Then attach the springs. Take the spring with you to the store so that you can choose the right size.

Leave the locking pliers in place and repeat the tightening procedure on the other side. Slowly close your door about halfway and release it. When the tracks of the roll up garage door come out alignment it can be a big and expensive fix to get the doors back in alignment so that the door will operate the way they re supposed to. Many self storage roll up door springs are gapped.

Hold the garage door and remove the vise grips from the track after the spring tension has been adjusted. Roll the door all the way down to expose the spring. Unbolt the broken spring and remove it.