Adjusting Clopay Garage Door Springs

Warning high spring tension can cause serious injury or death.

Adjusting clopay garage door springs.

Retest the door balance as you did in step 1. Once the spring is free of tension remove from its track hanger. A broken spring will definitely make for a noisy garage door if the garage door works at all. 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.

These videos will help you with the installation of your new clopay garage doors. This is an informational video only for a comprehensive guide consult the owners manual however i go over some key steps from start to finish. The use of any. If the door was closing too quickly move the spring to the next higher hole on the bracket.

This is accomplished by opening the garage door as fully as possible until it hits the stop bolt on the track. Steel residential garage door installation instructions and maintenance 1 and 2 layer construction in this manual you will find safety information how to prepare the opening installing the new door painting maintenance and replacement parts. This is a supplement to the residential garage door instructions referred to as the manual. Our system eliminates the difficult and dangerous manual winding process with the ability to set the spring tension in seconds with a 3 8 power drill.

One spring doors with two springs doors with one spring doors with two springs 1 1 or 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 4 10 10 4 4 2 0 0 2. You must release the tension on the garage door springs before attempting adjustment or replacement. Clopay garage door installation videos. The videos have been broken into segments to make downloading easier.

Constant diameter solid steel winding bars when winding or adjusting springs. Hold the garage door in this position by attaching a c clamp to the track at a point below the lowest door roller wheel. Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way. If adjustment of the rear track hanger is necessary the door must be locked in the closed position because the weight of the door is supported by the rear hangers.

If the torsion springs do not increase in tension as the 1 4 turns are added to the springs then you probably have the torsion springs reversed. If this is the case do not adjust repair or remove springs or parts to which springs are connected. Garage door springs offset the weight of the door and allow it to open and close with ease.