How To Install Garage Door Springs

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.

How to install garage door springs.

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. Garage door springs come in two styles. A couple of carabiners can. 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.

Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track. This should take about 3 minutes and you don t need to remove the springs or loosen the tension to measure them. Do not try to remove the extension spring that is not broken when the garage door is closed. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves.

Since extension springs are determined by how much weight they each lift and the pulley system cuts this in half you need to replace your old springs with 200 pound extension springs. A pair of new springs cost about 25. In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring.