How To Repair Garage Door Cable

Towards the bottom the of the door take your ratchet and socket of appropriate size and remove the bottom lag screw from the jamb bracket.

How to repair garage door cable.

Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door. This will prevent the door from shooting up and breaking your nose when you wind the new springs during an overhead garage door repair. Known as a spun cable this is actually quite common. Garage door cables can spin off.

For standard 7 foot door you will need a new cable that is 8 feet 6 inches long. Put it inside the drum and wind it tightly on the cable drum. The easiest fixes involve replacing cables or springs fixing the tracks or adjusting the tension. Remove the bottom bracket then remove the cable from the bracket.

You can now detach the old cable from the pin at bottom of the garage door. Install new cable onto bottom bracket thread this cable up to the cable drum at the top of the door. Easy garage door cable repair garage door cable repair processes are typically straightforward. 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. The other end has a loop to attach to the door. Slowly unwind the cable and remove it entirely from the drum. Also yank the cord and unplug the garage door opener before you start any garage door spring repair.

One end has a tip that fits perfectly inside the cable drum. On one end of the cable is a tip which fits neatly inside the drum. Clamp a locking pliers or a c clamp to the track just above one of the rollers. Check the ends of your new garage door cable.

In this video i will show you how to put it back on.