Torsion Bar Garage Door Installation

You need an assistant in step 4.

Torsion bar garage door installation.

Damage the garage door. Installation of rear torsion spring system. Follow standard installation for bottom brackets. Flying off can damage cars other property or even a person who is in the garage when it happens.

Choosing the right spring size for my garage door. This oem spring replacement system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process. To learn more about installing clopay garage doors go to our garage door installation overview. If your garage has only one entrance be sure you the assistant and the tools you need are inside before you lock the door.

Part 1 of 2. After the plug reaches the mark continue pulling the bar off the door and back toward the middle of the door with your left hand. When torsion springs break they don t fly off like extension springs can. Torsion springs are located over the garage door and the number of springs depends on the size and weight of the door.

Before you choose the right spring size make sure you know which type of spring system your door uses torsion or extension. Garage door torsion springs 2 pair with non slip winding bars coated torsion springs with a minimum of 10 000 cycles 0 250x2 x29 4 2 out of 5 stars 213 74 99 74. These videos will help you with the installation of your new clopay garage doors. What was once a job exclusively for trained garage door professionals clopay s ez set torsion spring system makes torsion spring installation faster and easier for the do it yourselfer.

Steel door section low headroom safety bottom bracket right hand shown step 3b ez set torsion spring system only the bottom brackets that came with the door not the bottom brackets in this kit are to be used for this setup. Clopay garage door installation videos. Your door will have either one or two torsion springs. The videos have been broken into segments to make downloading easier.

Each torsion spring consists of spring coils stationary cone and a winding cone fig. If it does start to slip rest the bar against the top of the garage door insert a bar in the next hole and turn the plug up enough to allow you to push the marked bar back into place.