How To Tighten Garage Door Spring Cable

Put the cable back on the pulley if it has come off.

How to tighten garage door spring cable.

If there is still too much slack on the cable you can use your pliers to adjust the bracket holding the wire to the hook that attached to the frame. To make fine adjustments try adjusting the lifting cable instead of the spring. Pull the rope that s attached to your garage door opener. Turn the collar in the same direction that the garage door cable passes over the pulley for increasing the opening.

Reattach the wire to the frame with the hook. Adjust the cable bracket. Clamp a locking pliers or a c clamp to the track just above one of the rollers. How to repair garage door springs and cables lock down the door.

Use your pliers to loosen the bracket pull excess cable through the bracket and re tighten. Shove a winding bar into a bottom hole of the winding cone of the good spring. Adjusting your garage door cables step one. Get two c clamps and attach them to the door s track just beneath the roller that s.

At the top left and right corners of the garage door frame are. To adjust your garage door s side mounted springs first open your door fully and secure it in place with a c clamp below the bottom roller. Wind the cable around the pulley if it s loose. It will release the door opener.

With the door propped open take the s hook out of the support and tighten or loosen the cable as needed. The cable is attached to the door and runs to an s hook that attaches to the track support. Lower the door and use. Loosen the unbroken spring.

How to safely adjust your garage door spring. Once your garage door is secured remove the spring hook from the track hanger which will allow you to move the hook and adjust the spring s tension. Positioning the cables correctly 1.