Garage Door Spring On One Side

How to open a garage door that has a broken spring step 1.

Garage door spring on one side.

Click on a problem below to see the possible causes and solutions. Insert each pry bar under the corner of the door between the door and the floor. So if the spring to your left is broken you want to order a right wound spring. Plug end extension spring the holmes hally p730 30 in.

In most cases you can determine the wind of your garage door torsion spring by using the color coded system on the cones at the end of the spring. Door with an initial tension of 110 lbs. The right wind spring goes on the left side of the spring anchor bracket and the left wind spring goes on the right side when looking from inside the garage. Position a 6 foot step ladder at each side of the garage door.

A garage door generally has two extension springs one on each side of the door and runs parallel to the track. Bottom of the door is up on one side. Most of the time the end on the right hand wind is red and the left and wind is black as you can see on the graphic below. Close the door and use a level to determine that it s hitting the ground levelly on both sides.

The spring to your right is a left wound spring and the spring to your left is the right wound spring. There are of course many other problems that can keep your garage door from functioning properly. They extend when the door is lowered and closed and retract as it opens. Decrease the tension on that side by hooking the spring onto a lower hole on the track hanger.

Usually you will have two springs on your door which will be color coded. With most new garage doors there will be two torsion springs separated by a divider that s located at the midpoint of the door. Pull up on the pry bars to. There are two at either side of the door to help with the tensile strength of each spring even though the extension is separate from one another.

Two p730 springs one on each side of the door can handle a 90 lbs. If it doesn t adjust the spring tension on each side of the door until it does. Plug end extension spring is a spring replacement for 1 piece tilt up canopy style garage doors. The holmes hally p730 30 in.

One of the more difficult problems for do it yourselfers to diagnose is a worn cable pulley on an extension spring door.