The first and important thing is to know when to change the garage door coil spring. It’s not rocket science; you can figure it out by looking at it. If your garage door coil spring shows a 1 to 2-inch gap when they are wounded, it means that it’s broken and needs replacing.
Once you found that your garage door coil spring is wounded, then at that time try to replace garage door springs. Make sure that you are replacing the spring by taking high safety precautions. For safety unplug the operators that lift and lower down the garage door.
Detaching Garage Door Springs:
Once you found that your garage door springs are broken. Then you should follow the instruction given below for the replacement of garage door coil springs.
- First, clip the garage door with the help of a clamping vice. This will stick the garage door, and the garage door will not move. Attach a clamping vice on the roller track that will not allow any movement to the garage door while replacing garage door coil springs.
- It might be possible that one of the garage door coil springs is broken and the other does not. So, firstly remove the garage spring which is not wounded or broken. This is the most important step. Before removing a broken garage door spring, remove the one which is not broken.
- Untie the screw which is on the lower side of the unbroken spring. Use a wrench for this procedure. Use tools that are specially designed for garage door maintenance.
- Once the screw is untied, put a bar on the socket of the screw and slightly release the springs’ tension. This might be a time-consuming method, but it is an effective one. This slow removal of tension from spring does not hurt your while you are performing work.
- There are almost thirty quarter turns required for the removal of tension from the garage door springs.
- Once the springs are completely tensioned free, then detach both springs from centre points.
Table Drums Losing:
For loosening table drums, untie the drum screws, and detached the cables from it. Lose both table drums for replacement of garage door coil springs. A need to lose the table drums is to remove the garage door springs from the bar’s sides. Just remove the garage door springs from the side of the bar.
Installing New Garage Door Coil Spring:
Once old wounded springs are being removed. Then this is the time for the replacement of the new spring. Now, put a new garage door coil spring inside the tube from where you put out the wounded spring. Now, take the table drum and put it in its respective place. In the same manner, remove other spring by untying the table drum.
Once both the garage door coil springs are being replaced, then tighten the screws of table drums by adjusting them in the respective place. Now attach both of the springs from the centre like the way it was previously.
Now attach cables with the drum-like it was at the time of opening. Then tie the table drums with the help of set screws.
Develop the tension in springs by using a bar and then tight the springs from other ends. We can say that repeat the opening procedure in the inverse method. Once the screws from the spring are completely tightened, then slightly remove the bars you are using for developing tension in the spring.
Make sure that tension on both sides of the spring is equal. For developing equal tension on the spring, provide equal rotation to both springs. Then your springs are ready to use for garage door opening and closing.
Role Of Springs In Garage Door:
If the spring of a garage door is broken, it works like a garage door without spring. The function of the garage door spring is to provide balance. Garage door springs also hold the garage door to its stationary position.
Springless garage door
If your garage door spring is broken, then it might be possible that you are using a garage door without springs. In simple, we can say that they work as a springless garage door. If you are using a springless garage door in Lynnwood, WA 98087, avail our services for concerting springless garage door to garage door with springs.
Our services are for fixing every garage door in the area of Lynnwood, WA 98087. Using the above installation method, we can easily fix your garage door safely in less time.
