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Your garage door repairman will perform an inspection of your overhead garage door with every job.
So we have the door that the cable has come off on one side. this is one of the few garage door repair Olathe that a home owner can do.
When you look at it the cable is a giant bird's nest. The door is in the open position. OK doors open. If you look at the side where the cable that is wrapped around the drum like it’s supposed to be. This way you know how the cable is supposed to be on the drum. This door happened to come down on the tailgate of a car which ultimately spun the cable off over on the other side where we are going to repair. |
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We are going to explain to you how to fix it. It’s pretty easy. Go to get yourself a pair of vise grips. You want to push the door up and put your vice grips right underneath the bottom roller. So that way it’s going to hold the door up and were able to reach up in to the pulley and untangle that cable.
You might want to get a 4-foot ladder and put it underneath the door so it’s easier to reach up in and untangle the cable around the pulley. So you need to get the cable off of the bottom fixture of the door where it’s hooked around there. The hoop of the cable is hooked on the little end of the bottom take it off. OK. Once it is off, you can go ahead and start unraveling all the cable and put it around the axle shaft. You want to make sure that the cable is not around the drum so once you know that go and grab the end of the cable and just start wrapping it around the drum. Make sure you wrap it correctly. The first portion of the wrapping cable should be on the high lift portion of the drum or pulley. So then it steps down on the pulley. |
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Make sure you take the time to get it all the way in the grooves. You want to make sure that they wrap around the pulley or drum is clean and not overlapping each other. When you get to the point where you can’t go around anymore, that’s when we want to re-hook it to the bottom Bracket of the garage door.
It will be very tight and sometimes not easy to hook it on the bottom of the door fixture, but that is a good thing you do not want a lot of slack in the cable.
OK, so it’s hooked to the bottom fixture of the door and tight around the drum let’s unhook the vice grips take them off. Now your garage door should roll freely. Try to pull the door down it should come down all the way to the ground. Look to make sure there is no light coming from the outside into the interior of the garage. Then we will know that it is level and going up and down correctly.
It is a relatively simple process to put the cable back on. If you have a broken garage door spring in Overland Park Kansas. Then you will definitely want to call Olathe Garage Door repair and get the services of a professional.
It will be very tight and sometimes not easy to hook it on the bottom of the door fixture, but that is a good thing you do not want a lot of slack in the cable.
OK, so it’s hooked to the bottom fixture of the door and tight around the drum let’s unhook the vice grips take them off. Now your garage door should roll freely. Try to pull the door down it should come down all the way to the ground. Look to make sure there is no light coming from the outside into the interior of the garage. Then we will know that it is level and going up and down correctly.
It is a relatively simple process to put the cable back on. If you have a broken garage door spring in Overland Park Kansas. Then you will definitely want to call Olathe Garage Door repair and get the services of a professional.