How To Install A Torsion Bar Garage Door

But we ll show you garage door spring replacement on the more common torsion springs the kind that mount on a bar above the garage door.

How to install a torsion bar garage door.

This oem spring replacement system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process. When torsion springs break they don t fly off like extension springs can. In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring. Flying off can damage cars other property or even a person who is in the garage when it happens.

Step 1 preparing the door frame. Part 1 of 2. It is important that the torsion spring assembly be firmly and securely attached to the frame of the garage. Just a video showing how to change out broken garage door torsion springs with new ones.

Diy garage door repair and save money. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story. After the plug reaches the mark continue pulling the bar off the door and back toward the middle of the door with your left hand. In the end scott got the door that he wanted installed along with a great liftmaster garage door opener.

This video will show you how to repair a mis aligned garage door cable. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. If it does start to slip rest the bar against the top of the garage door insert a bar in the next hole and turn the plug up enough to allow you to push the marked bar back into place. Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track.

Two 1 2 diameter 18 long cold rolled solid steel winding bars note. If your garage door cable is at an angle or l. Garage door springs come in two styles.