Garage Door Torsion Spring Replacement: How to by [Professional Tech]

you you sitting in this video we're going to show you a step-by-step process and how to replace a broken garage door spring now the first step obviously is determined that you do in fact have a broken garage door spring if you look above you'll see two Springs the one on my right is effective not broken the one on my left is broken the way to determine this is if you look at your Spring Springs will expand about one to two inches when they're loud you can clearly see there to one a two inch gap and that spring which tells us it's broken now the next step is safety first we're going to want to unplug this operator so no one inadvertently hits it while we're working on the springs it's like well the quarter and we're saying I wouldn't make sure that if your operator has a battery backup you detach the arm itself from the garage door in order to do this just pull your cord here and you're going to go now another thing that we'd like you to do take a pair of I scripts and just above one your rollers on the track itself just right down there this is for if your springs are too loaded or too hot when you go and wind them later the door doesn't rise that by itself all right now the next step is to unwind in the unbroken spring now this is the most important step you have to do we never want to work on a course and system when spring is Wow we're going to take a 7/16 wrench we're gonna undo your set screws here we're gonna be using a three beams where its socket what makes it a lot quicker we do this a lot every day so we don't use wrenches so we're going to take you my team are please please please make sure that you get to use whitening bars that are certified for garage door systems you don't want to use rebar or something like that we just don't recommend it make sure it fits snugly in there you're going to take care of our spigot your two features and they're going to tight take your wrench they create a strong grip on this and very slowly you'll feel the pressure of that spring on our hand there's two of them going back here and right now I have all that tension on that spring let it down and that hold it Matt so we're gonna take your other bar put it in here this one I prop it up really slightly make sure that's good them in there and slide this next bar out and let this one not average Spring has about thirty quarter turns on the spring so you're gonna do that 30 times so again I'm gonna put it in here drop it a little bit pull your next bar up and just do that 30 times now the next step after we have determined that most Springs are not lounge we're going to undo these Center poles set all the strings together you're going to use a 9/16 wrench we'll use power tools probably no one watched our video of us I'm doing every bolt so just take a move on it next step now that our Springs are apart we're going to go over to our table drums and loosen them up you'll notice that this cables are in fact slack so we're just going to take your 7/16 wrench again come in here this is Matt the bowl make sure they're good now slide it over and move on to the next one now for this drug we've zoomed in a little bit so you can see my hands working again there are two set screws on here take your 7/16 wrench loosen em both Wow and you're going to slide it out if you have too little resistance you can just turn it like that and move on to the next step all right now that everything's loose we're going to take it all apart now I've watched a lot of videos online on how to do this and as a professional Garage Door technician let me show you your new best friend this is a five now these are your old sets free marks sometimes when you're sliding your Springs off your tool you'll notice that you'll have a difficult time sliding past those so take the time sliders bring back take your file you just do the red on the set remarks and you're going to file away any first that would cause I sprang out the slide smoothly along that and don't know this sly it's fast alright now that we have all of our set screw marks filed down you'll notice that this tube will slide back and forth easy for us we're going to take the springs on the sidewalk both ends so take your spring here slide it down you're going to take your tube pull it [Music] over here take your drum slide it off this edge to the side take your spring to slide off it's a spring you know this one the left side the portion system there is a red round right hand round spring [Music] slide it down take your drum slide it back on take your to put it back in your hole down [Music] for these society I'm gonna take your new spring to the Blackcomb left-hand rocks bringing the right side [Music] now they got my drum I'm just gonna shake a little close-up up under to think that on this side of the age another set my sensory marks are final man or things slides real easy just take it push it right back into your hand wrap my plate there and now we're going to mount this brings together in the center alright now that we got our Springs on there we're going to attach them in the center notice that there's just a plastic bearing here we only need one prepare this cycle together in this turn here take your original bolts again it's a 9/16 wrench and move on a nice nap but our next step is to put our left cable on just take your tape later if your drum will notice in your drum there's a little notch here that's where your cable just slide it right in there make sure it's good and tight you're going to turn your drum around with your cable there make sure it's feeding in there just push it over against the bracket make sure your cables going to loosen it's not touching anything it's good like that then your going to take your set screws you're going to tighten those up again you're gonna tighten them now when you feel that the screw is bottoming into this tube right when you feel that you're about a half a turn without writing instituting about a half a turn and then go back to your other one put about 1/4 turn on their make sure it's good and tight ok that's both tight now the next step is you're going to take care of my scripts take care of my scripts on this tube here make sure your tables gonna taunt take your vice grips put it right on that to secure it against your ceiling or your header make sure that stays like that make sure your do not go anywhere you're free put on your other cable now we're going to put on a right cable you're gonna take your cable in here there's a little squash on the drum put your cable right in there position it so it's in not facing out you're just gonna take your cable feed it on the drum you can slide it toward your and bracket just keep speeding it we get all the way there make sure it's that make sure you're not hit anything with your table you're going to tighten up your set screws now we get a lot of questions on our tech line from our website about how tight to tighten the set screws what we like to say just tighten them until you get to the tube so just tighten it right there I'm hitting the tube so go about a half a turn same side on the other side hit the to go about a half come back to this one it's tip about a quarter about there give this about another quarter and that's good now that we got our left and right cable on our vice grip is holding them talked with the tube we're going to go ahead and wind up the left hand spring now you're gonna take your winding bar if you know why you please get winding bars of these rebar or anything like that we don't recommend it make sure you use a bar put it right in that hole there make sure it's good and tight you're gonna push up on your spring put your next bar at rest against the door push up again that's called a quarter turn on a spring we're gonna do that 31 times for a seven-foot door you notice we do have a chart on our website that shows you how many turns to put on your door feel free to use that anytime you want for this sub priority we can go 31 times 31 let me get to this point take the bar out let this pressed against your door now we're gonna tighten up your set screws make sure that bar is in there good now three set screws again go get the tube about a half turn more hit the tube come back to the next one said about a quarter turn make sure it's been in there that's tight I'm free to take our torsion bar out make sure those are tight take your bar we're gonna push it up maybe an inch just push it out slide this bar out very very slowly let go make sure those cables aren't going anywhere make sure your torsion springs not going anywhere play tomorrow you're free to wind up your next spring that's 28 I mean I please notice when I'm winding these I'm keeping my head clear this phone this is kind of the danger area when you're winding a spring just keep clear of this area here if that bar were to let out this is the last place you want to be [Music] that's my turns now I've noticed a couple other videos in the internet people hit this to expand that spring out it's not necessary at all as a professional technician I've seen a couple of technicians do that they get hurt pretty bad as that cone was miss manufacturer if something were to go wrong it's fine it expands by itself obviously come back in here take your set screws tighten down again same as all the other ones go until you fill that to get that to come back here skip about a quarter turn or two turns over tight you're free to take the bar again put your bar in here push off about an inch just enough to slide this bar out again let go slowly make sure everything's good it's nice crowd alright now that we got our Springs loud we're free to take off of that vice chair that's hold on our tables just come over here make sure you have a good firm grip on the roller make sure doesn't and you don't want it to do just raise it up make sure is not going to go anywhere the store appears to be pretty well balanced make sure your cables are staying on in the up position they appear to be now if your door if it was a little hot being that they're going up by itself whether it's a little heavy you're born about the adjuster screws in you can take a quarter or a half a turn off of that I like that pun here I'll just show you how to do that real quick everyone your Springs maybe they want to nominate red white bars let's say this door was a little hot meaning it was going up all by itself and then this it wasn't perfectly balanced just come up here 20 or screams about the torsion bar in here make sure it's going in there loose another set of screws aramis bring just like this you're free to tighten up your accessories yet [Music] they're so low that's the door up again see if everyone out you can adjust a little more on the other screen if you need to if that's where you want to hear good you're free to attach to the operator now that we've operated or by hands we like where it's balanced that we're free to plug in the operator in just plug it right back in you can have a friend or you can run over hit the wall button for you I'll write this appears to be running okay if you raise it up it doesn't want to go down so we check your eyes make sure you didn't bump them you've been working around in a lot there's to be running good now when you adjust your springs in this be aware that new Springs on your door your operator is gonna need to get used to those Springs you can adjust your force or sensitivity settings on your operator it's really easy to do just run on the back here they're all on the back and really easy to do after that you're pretty much done it was a little bit of work yes but the last thing you want to do is do it over again now the most important thing are all of this make sure you get the correct Springs on the door that's where we come in we specialize in getting you the correct Springs on your door there's all kinds of doors different weights different sizes of Springs different cathetus there's a lot there's thousands of different types of Springs and we have one stock ready to ship same day we can get up to you we get you it's an emergency you need them quick we're here for you please use our tech line we have a tech line you can call up talk to a real service tech we'll help you get the correct Springs that you need for your door you can even send in a picture and we'll tell you what Springs need for your door we're here for you we want to get you the right Springs thank you for watching your video you

Channel: Express Garage Door Parts

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Length: 16min 16sec (976 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 23 2018