How To Fix The Wire On My Garage Door

When the garage door cable breaks there is only one way to fix it that is to replace it.

How to fix the wire on my garage door.

Snap a locking pliers onto the torsion tube to lock it into place while you tighten the drums. Pull the cable as tight as possible before tightening the setscrews. With pliers remove the old cable and replace it with the new. Garage door cables can spin off.

Garage door cables can spin off. Most of the time your able to do i. Second once your door is closed and the springs are locked down with winding bars you can remove the bottom bracket from the track. This could be the issue.

This can be an easy fix. Is your cable off on your garage door. Strip the rubber coating off of each wire you will need to strip off about 1 2 inch of the rubber coating on each wire 4 total. Next the thickness of the new cable should be 1 8.

It s better if a cable ends up a little longer than a little shorter. Rotate the drum to wind the cable into the winding grooves. If you consider yourself handy with tools and have experience in working on diy projects then replacing your broken garage door cable will be a simple task. Make sure you match up the wire colors and twist the wires of the same color together.

Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door. This can be an easy fix.