How To Repair Garage Door Cable Drum

How to fix a garage door spring.

How to repair garage door cable drum.

After replacing the broken cable. After all of the tension has been removed from the springs take your wrench and begin to loosen set screws on the cable drum at the top left of the door then remove cable from cable drum. This can be an easy fix. As the door opens the cable wraps up on the drum and comes closer to the shaft see how vertical lift and high lift garage doors work pictured to the right is the 11 vertical lift cable drum vertical lift cable drums come in three outer diameters.

Use locking pliers or a c clamp to secure the torsion tube to the center bracket to keep it from moving. Learn how to repair overhead garage door springs and cables without winding up in the emergency room. Secure the tube and remove the springs cables and cable drums. Garage door cables can spin off.

Vertical lift cable drums are taller than standard lift drums. Be sure not to over tighten the drum. Follow along as a pro explains how it s done. If your garage door isn t operating properly the torsion springs are likely to blame.

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. This could be the issue. Follow me in this video on how. Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.

When the garage door is closed the cable is farther from the shaft. The garage door tension springs provide lifting force for the heavy door and are under tremendous tension get careless and they can hurt you. Is your cable off on your garage door. When it is attached use your vise grip once again to turn the shaft and tighten the cable around the drum one last time.