How To Repair Garage Door Cable

How to repair garage door springs and cables lock down the door.

How to repair garage door cable.

Install new cable onto bottom bracket thread this cable up to the cable drum at the top of the door. Afterward you can remove the broken cables from the both sides of cable drums. Clamp a locking pliers or a c clamp to the track just above one of the rollers. Shove a winding bar into a bottom hole of the winding cone of the good spring.

Towards the bottom the of the door take your ratchet and socket of appropriate size and remove the bottom lag screw from the jamb bracket. To make the cable insertion easier you can slide the track a bit. Garage door cables can spin off. Turn off your garage door opener and open the garage door fully.

Loosen the unbroken spring. With pliers remove the old cable and replace it with the new. This can be an easy fix. Most of the time your able to do i.

Second once your door is closed and the springs are locked down with winding bars you can remove the bottom bracket from the track. Next the thickness of the new cable should be 1 8. In this video i have a look at how to repair the. The garage door wire cable can come off of the drum pulley spool which can be quite frustrating to repair.

Remove the bottom bracket then remove the cable from the bracket. Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door. The first thing to be done is releasing the tension from the cable. Place c clamps under the door on both sides to ensure that the garage door will stay up.

If your garage door cable is worn out or broken it s important that you replace it as soon as possible.