How To Fix Automatic Garage Door Cable

Leave the locking pliers in place and repeat the tightening procedure on the other side.

How to fix automatic garage door cable.

Garage door crooked and the cable came off. One end has a tip that fits perfectly inside the cable drum. Half this distance is the center. While the sizes can vary most will be seven feet tall.

Pull the cable as tight as possible before tightening the setscrews. Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door. You can now detach the old cable from the pin at bottom of the garage door. Rotate the drum to wind the cable into the winding grooves.

Snap a locking pliers onto the torsion tube to lock it into place while you tighten the drums. To fix a broken garage door cable yourself expect to spend a few hours. To fix your garage door cables you ll want to release the tension of the springs by lifting the door. First you ll have to measure the garage door height.

You d need a ladder wrenches 3 8 7 16 and winding bars vice grips and of course some handyman skills. For standard 7 foot door you will need a new cable that is 8 feet 6 inches long. You don t want any electrical accidents to happen while you re working on your garage door. While you re at it disengage the electricity from your garage door opener if you have an automatic one.

Most of the time your able to do i. When you re done fix the other end which is a cable loop to the pin at the bottom of the garage door. Slowly unwind the cable and remove it entirely from the drum. Here s how to install a garage door opener.

On the inside of the door toward the top draw a short vertical line down the center of the door. The other end has a loop to attach to the door. Fixing a broken garage door cable. The mechanism should be installed at the center of the door.

Put it inside the drum and wind it tightly on the cable drum. This can be an easy fix. Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off. Check the ends of your new garage door cable.