How To Replace A Garage Door Springs

The following instructions for replacing garage door springs are for do it yourself homeowners and for maintenance repair men who service their smaller commercial or industrial sectional overhead doors.

How to replace a garage door springs.

Replacing garage door springs takes 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on the type and size of the garage door and number of 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. These directions are designed for torsion springs mounted to both sides of an anchor bracket above the middle of the garage door as pictured above. 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.

A garage door spring tune up takes 10 to 15 minutes per door. Our springs are made to be a bit flexible so you don t have to get it to an exact measurement. Replacing torsion springs is the more difficult and potentially dangerous task. 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.

Replace torsion garage door springs by following these steps. Attempt the following steps only if you are a very.