Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door.
How to fix garage door cable drum.
Is your cable off on your garage door.
Garage door cables can spin off.
Follow me in this video on how.
Pull the cable as tight as possible before tightening the setscrews.
When it is attached use your vise grip once again to turn the shaft and tighten the cable around the drum one last time.
Garage door cables can spin off.
Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.
Garage door crooked and the cable came off.
This can be an easy fix.
Leave the locking pliers in place and repeat the tightening procedure on the other side.
Most of the time your able to do i.
This can be an easy fix.
Keep your hand on the cable at all times and wind it neatly until you can attach the loop at the other end to the pin at the bottom of your garage door.
Be sure not to over tighten the drum.
After replacing the broken cable you should check the drum and cable on the other side of the door to make sure it hasn t come unwrapped while you were working.