Fortunately it s easy to keep yourself and all your garage stuff safe.
How to hook up tension spring on garage door.
Side mounted springs are long heavy springs mounted on each side of the upper garage door track.
This tension makes it easier to lift the garage door from its closed position.
New garage door extension springs.
Let me show you what a bad spring looks like.
Once your garage door is secured remove the spring hook from the track hanger which will allow you to move the hook and adjust the spring s tension.
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Do this with the door open and c clamps on.
If you need to increase the spring tension hook the spring onto a lower hole on the track hanger.
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Move the s hook to different holes in the horizontal support bracket.
The garage door tension springs provide lifting force for the heavy door and are under tremendous tension get careless and they can hurt you.
Thus safety is top priority.
Adjust the cable in the 3 hole adjusting clip connected to the s hook this is a pain moving the eye bolt up or down on the vertical support bracket.
I almost forgot to mention this but make sure your car is not in the garage.
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.
But safety first garage door extension springs are under extreme tension.
A few years back i narrowly avoided being hit by a spring that snapped.
Follow along as a pro explains how it s done.
Reattach the hook at the next link up to loosen the.
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Pull downward on the spring and reattach the hook at the lower end of the spring at the next link down the chain to increase the spring tension.