It is very bad situations when your garage door off the track. Here some reasons that can lead to an off track garage doors but the most common reason is broken cables. So, to bring your garage door working again you need to replace the cables.
Replacing the broken cables is not much difficult but you need to focus on the process. You will get an instruction manual with the new cable.
Before trying to replace cables you should go through these instructions so will be no chances of imperfections and accident. Here, we are going to give you the stepwise instructions for replacing your garage door cables.
The Tools You Need For The Replacement
Tools for repair like sockets, wrench and many others. Refer to instruction manual for knowing more.
Safety equipment like gloves, eye glasses etc.
11 Steps For Cable Replacement
1. Don’t use the opener to open the door, release the emergency cord and lift it up manually.
2. Now fix the door at a position. Use 2 vice grip pliers, one for on each side of the door otherwise it will close unexpectedly.
3. Use the winding bars to hold the spring in place and loosen up the screws that are on the spring. Now slowly unwind the spring one winding bar movement at a time until you notice there is no tension within the spring at all.
4. If the door is equipped with two springs, perform the same procedure for the other spring as well.
5. Now, remove the cables from the drum on each side by loosen the screws.
6. After detaching the cables from the drum then detach rom the bottom and from the brackets, when you’re done with removing one cable remove from the other too.
7. Take the new cables and install them. This time you need to start from the bottom through the brackets all the way up to the cable drum.
8. Wind the cable on the drum and glide it to bearing plate, rotate the cable drum in the clockwise direction and stop rotating when you notice that cable is tight but make sure that it is not to much and tighten the screw on the cable drum.
9. Use the winding bars again to turn the spring in order to gain tension on the springs and you are done with the replacement process.
10. Remove the vice grips from the track and lift the door up fully before closing it.
11. Open and close the door repeatedly for few times to check if the garage door cables are properly installed.
