Get on a ladder to get close to the top of the door where you can inspect the pulley system.
Garage door pulley cable broken.
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Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.
Hold it in place with vice grips attached to the track on each side.
This can be an easy fix.
While the sizes can vary most will be seven feet tall.
The cable gets worse with years of constant door usage.
An issue with the cables could be as simple as the cables slipping off of the pulley system.
The most common problems with this system are broken springs or cables.
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.
This can be an easy fix.
Is your cable off on your garage door.
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Take particular care with the side with the broken or frayed cable.
Another thing that will cause your garage door cable to break is corrosion.
Garage door cables can spin off.
To fix a broken garage door cable yourself expect to spend a few hours.
Once you have taken all the steps above you are ready to remove the broken cable.
First you ll have to measure the garage door height.
It can also break when the bearings in your pulley are faulty.
Garage door cables can spin off.
This could be the issue.
This video will show you a safe and easy way to replace your garage door cables.
Drums at the ends of the tube act as reels winding up the cables connected to the door.
To understand this you need to know how the garage door cable works.
Garage door crooked and the cable came off.
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.
To help lift a heavy garage door the springs apply twisting force to the torsion tube.
Smaller doors often have just one spring.
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