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Garage door pulley cable broken.
Once you have taken all the steps above you are ready to remove the broken cable.
This can be an easy fix.
Another thing that will cause your garage door cable to break is corrosion.
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.
Most of the time your able to do i.
To help lift a heavy garage door the springs apply twisting force to the torsion tube.
Is your cable off on your garage door.
Garage door cables can spin off.
This could be the issue.
Hold it in place with vice grips attached to the track on each side.
This video will show you a safe and easy way to replace your garage door cables.
Here is the reason why garage door cable breaks.
Now let me explain this in detail.
While the sizes can vary most will be seven feet tall.
An issue with the cables could be as simple as the cables slipping off of the pulley system.
To understand this you need to know how the garage door cable works.
Get on a ladder to get close to the top of the door where you can inspect the pulley system.
The cable gets worse with years of constant door usage.
Smaller doors often have just one spring.
The most common problems with this system are broken springs or cables.
Garage door cables can spin off.
Garage door crooked and the cable came off.
It can also break when the bearings in your pulley are faulty.
To fix a broken garage door cable yourself expect to spend a few hours.
First you ll have to measure the garage door height.
Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.
Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door.
Removing the broken cable.
Start by opening your garage door partway until it is a few feet from the ground.
You d need a ladder wrenches 3 8 7 16 and winding bars vice grips and of course some handyman skills.
This can be an easy fix.