How To Install A Torsion Bar Garage Door

In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring.

How to install a torsion bar garage door.

Garage door springs come in two styles. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. What was once a job exclusively for trained garage door professionals clopay s ez set torsion spring system makes torsion spring installation faster and easier for the do it yourselfer. This video will show you how to repair a mis aligned garage door cable.

Just a video showing how to change out broken garage door torsion springs with new ones. Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track. In the end scott got the door that he wanted installed along with a great liftmaster garage door opener. Flying off can damage cars other property or even a person who is in the garage when it happens.

Part 1 of 2. Step 1 preparing the door frame. This oem spring replacement system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story.

Two 1 2 diameter 18 long cold rolled solid steel winding bars note. It is important that the torsion spring assembly be firmly and securely attached to the frame of the garage. When torsion springs break they don t fly off like extension springs can. 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.

Installation of rear torsion spring system. Winding bars are available at most hardware stores 4. 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.