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kingfarvito t1_iu73ju0 wrote

Reply to comment by 5kyl3r in [Help] Please advise on how to safely remove an old garage door spring (existing guides are all for new styles of torsion spring) by moron_that_later

Yall gotta stop taking things you don't know anything about and just speaking very confidently.about them for the sake of being right.

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5kyl3r t1_iu75dik wrote

i'm stating facts. my friend had his break and it bent one of the tracks and punched a hole in his wall. those tracks are really rigid and it bent that crap like it was paper. just about the same result when it happened to my brother's garage door.

now if there's a way to remove it without tension, that would probably be worth DIY'ing, but i don't know enough about them to say without looking at some. even then, garage doors are pretty heavy. my last house had doors with fancy wooden fascia to meet hoa standards and with insulation added, the box store openers couldn't open it. when the garage dude was installing the new setup, he told me to try to lift the door. legit would barely move. if you remove with door at highest point to remove tension, or as much as possible, now you have a door elevated without assistance.

pay the pros is not bad advice when safely is a concern. if a pro (assuming you are based on this comment?) disagree, post your credentials and why you think they should try it

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kingfarvito t1_iu8jxd6 wrote

I'm not a pro. But I am pretty sure you're thinking of a torsion spring, which ops door doesn't have. On ops style door the springs are to the sides and are completely slack when the door is up. It's 2 completely different systems. One is very dangerous, the other you would have to actively try to get hurt by and even then it would be minor.

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5kyl3r t1_iu9dznf wrote

ah i can actually see the photo now. the only dangerous part then would be the weight of the door and risk of it slamming down; so if you secure it so it can't move while you replace it, i think it's a no-brainer. though i wonder why OP is asking since just looking at it should be fairly obvious how straightforward it should be

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