Old Style Garage Door Spring Replacement

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Old style garage door spring replacement.

Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. X 32 in yellow right hand wind 4 7 out of 5 stars 132 93 95 93. If you have two springs on each side of your door and only replace one broken spring you can run into more problems. Test the spring by lifting the door about 3 feet.

As a result you may run into balance issues if you only replace one spring. The doors with two springs are easy to replace. If the door remains in place the replacement was a. One cable attaches to the bottom of the door runs up and over the pulley above the door and around the spring pulley and then attaches to the door track bracket.

There are two types of garage door springs. One at the end of each spring and one at the top of the vertical door track they also have two cables on each side. If you only replace the broken spring your old spring will be weaker as it will have lost some of its pull.