Garage Doors Repair Service Garage Door Repair - Some Useful Tips | Page 11

How To Do Overhead
Garage Door Repairs
• Lock the door down tightly using locking pliers slightly above one of the
rollers. This is to prevent the door from reversing back and hurting you as
you wind the new springs. Also remember to unplug the door opener from
the power outlet.
• Loosen and unwind the unbroken spring. Push the winding bar into the
bottom hole of the winding shaft of the intact spring. Clamp the winding bar
in place as you slacken the two setscrews. Fasten the other winding bar into
the hole, and unwind the spring.
• Detach the springs from the middle bracket, by removing nuts and bolts and
then sliding the springs into the end brackets
• By the help of locking pliers, clamp the torsion rod onto the bracket. Slacken
off the setscrews on the left and right side of the cable drums and detach the
cables.