Torsion Bar Garage Door Installation

To learn more about installing clopay garage doors go to our garage door installation overview.

Torsion bar garage door installation.

Your door will have either one or two torsion springs. If your garage has only one entrance be sure you the assistant and the tools you need are inside before you lock the door. In the end scott got the door that he wanted installed along with a great liftmaster garage door opener. Clopay garage door installation videos.

Damage the garage door. You need an assistant in step 4. 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. Just a video showing how to change out broken garage door torsion springs with new ones.

See instruction manual warning failure to properly engage. This oem spring replacement system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process. 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. 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.

Before you choose the right spring size make sure you know which type of spring system your door uses torsion or extension. The videos have been broken into segments to make downloading easier. When torsion springs break they don t fly off like extension springs can. 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.

Flying off can damage cars other property or even a person who is in the garage when it happens. Part 1 of 2. Follow standard installation for bottom brackets. Each torsion spring consists of spring coils stationary cone and a winding cone fig.

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. Installation of rear torsion spring system.