Installing Extension Garage Door Springs

These videos will help you with the installation of your new clopay garage doors.

Installing extension garage door springs.

There are two types of garage door springs. Clopay garage door installation videos. Replacing garage door extension spring safety cable. These springs are typically made.

The videos have been broken into segments to make downloading easier. There are several types of garage door springs to consider when replacing them. Replacing garage door extension spring safety cable. A couple of carabiners can.

Garage door extension springs stretch to provide lifting power for the door. Part 3 of 3. Torsion see above which mounts on the header above the door and extension photo 1 which floats above the upper roller track. Extension springs the other kind of garage door springs are torsion springs run alongside the upper garage door tracks the ones that run parallel to the ceiling and stretch or extend out and back to help lift the garage door.

The doors with two springs are easy to replace. A pair of new springs cost about 25. If the extension springs are not the same length open the garage door and change the location of one of the s hooks so that when you close the door both springs are the same length. In the past extension springs were safer to install but didn t have containment cables running through the center of the spring.

Garage door springs come in two styles. How to safely install clopay overhead garage door ez set extension springs. Following are the steps necessary to replace one or more of these springs while taking safety precautions.