Garage Door Cable Came Off!!! ― A Quick and Easy Fix… 

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Sorry for the late reply Larry! We had a family emergency the past week, and I was taking care of that. Unfortunately the weather forecast here is pretty bad for at least the next ten days. We have three -7℉ (-22℃) days in a row this week, and two of them have 23 mph winds! That comes to -33℉ (- 36℃) with the wind chill! We try not to even go anywhere in that kind of weather as you can get frostbite in just a few minutes on exposed skin. We also have about 6" of snow coming at the same time - just a miserable week as far as weather goes. It's going to be slow going around here probably thru the end of the year! 😑🥶🥶

@@PlanetMojo it's fine just stay warm that is the main priority

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In my case, if the door tips to one side or the other even a little bit, it causes the cable to be loose for just long enough to pop off. I agree, I have no idea why it would do that being pulled from the center by an opener, but it obviously does 🤔 It may have to do with the length of the door. Ours is 18' wide (12' tall).

You have to mark the drum location with the rod, have more tools, and spend more time…sounds harder to me.

Yea, that sounds easy.

You need to have someone come out and look at it then.

You need to only work on the cable when door is in the up position without tension on the cable. There should be little to no tension on the cable when door is open.

From most videos I've seen, manually open the door. Disengage the red handle from the chain.

It's probably too late but you should have gone to videos on setting the springs on spring assembly like adding new or broken spring.

Door closed.

Okay great

@@frankorosz901…you are dangerous

You likely need the spring tightened.

Adjust spools on each side to place just enough tension to keep cable lightly taught at the closest point to pulling bracket end. Remember, door should be in up position before working on cables.

Did you hear yourself? Doing it your way would allow less final length in the cable causing the unequal movement…again.

If and when this happens to you…you’ll find out your method will never work