Take particular care with the side with the broken or frayed cable.
Garage door cable broken how do i replace it.
Then carefully with the assistance of another person manually lift the garage door.
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.
While the sizes can vary most will be seven feet tall.
Finally clamp the door in place using vice clamps on the track so that it is held in position and will not crash down as you are replacing the cable.
Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more.
Fixing a broken garage door cable.
You d need a ladder wrenches 3 8 7 16 and winding bars vice grips and of course some handyman skills.
Removing the broken cable.
First you ll have to measure the garage door height.