How To Fix Electric Garage Door Cable

It s better if a cable ends up a little longer than a little shorter.

How to fix electric garage door cable.

This can be an easy fix. Second once your door is closed and the springs are locked down with winding bars you can remove the bottom bracket from the track. Garage door cables can spin off. Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door.

Loosen the unbroken spring. If your garage door still has not reconnected after these steps and you need service type in zip code in the footer below to find your local garage door repair company. Most of the time your able to do i. Next the thickness of the new cable should be 1 8.

Is your cable off on your garage door. One end has a tip that fits perfectly inside the cable drum. If you find this video useful you can help me by donating it don t matter if it s a small amount. This could be the issue.

Put it inside the drum and wind it tightly on the cable drum. How to repair garage door springs and cables lock down the door. Clamp a locking pliers or a c clamp to the track just above one of the rollers. With pliers remove the old cable and replace it with the new.

Shove a winding bar into a bottom hole of the winding cone of the good spring. This can be an easy fix. When you re done fix the other end which is a cable loop to the pin at the bottom of the garage door. Check the ends of your new garage door cable.