Installation of safety cables on your garage door springs can.
How to install garage door spring safety cables.
Before beginning any project ensure that you have all the materials necessary to complete the job.
Read on to learn how to replace your garage door cables.
The size of your garage door will determine the cable size.
Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more.
For example if you have a 7 foot door you will use an 8 6 cable.
But we ll show you garage door spring replacement on the more common torsion springs the kind that mount on a bar above the garage door.
Tools you will need to replace your garage door cables.
They are similar to the garage door cables though usually lighter weight.
They don t have loops at the ends closer to the h.
Clopay safety cables are different.
A garage door safety cable may look unnecessary to many people as it costs money.
A quick way to install safety cables on an extension spring door.
Safety cables keep a broken garage door spring from sailing around the garage.
We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story.