Use a piece of tape to mark the current placement of the pulley so that it.
Removing tension spring garage door.
A spring loaded hinge should only be removed when the door is closed to avoid it slamming.
Open the garage door to remove all spring tension and clamp it in place.
Disconnect the garage door opener so the door remains closed.
Put on eye.
Continue reinserting the bar and pulling down on the winding cone until the cone is all the way at the end of the spring.
Press the spring into the mouth of the jaws of the wrench with your thumb and rest the other end of the wrench on the top of the door.
Position a sturdy ladder to the side of the springs rather than working directly in front of them for safety reasons.
Close the garage door remove the vise grips and manually open the door.
On the other hand if the garage door falls to the floor on its own after reaching the halfway point there isn t enough tension on your torsion springs.
Remove 1 4 turn of tension from your torsion springs but never more than 1 2 turn.
You can either use the locks installed on the door or use clamps or locking pliers as shown in figure 1.
Then block the spring shaft with locking pliers leaning against the wall header as shown in figures 2 and 22.
Next pull down on the winding cone with a winding bar.
Removal of torsion springs.
Garage doors even thin metal doors are very heavy and can come down with great force without the springs carrying the bulk of their weight.
Garage doors are under constant extreme spring tension do not attempt any adjustment repair or alteration to any part of the door especially on springs spring brackets bottom corner brackets red colored fasteners cables or supports without first safely removing the tension from the springs.
Using a hex wrench open the spring so you can see the tension pin.
Then remove the pin using pliers.
First of all lock the door in the closed position.
You can then remove the hex wrench and allow the spring to naturally unwind.
To remove extension springs open the garage door all the way and attach c clamps or locking pliers to the tracks on both sides to prevent the door from rolling down once the springs are removed.
