Usually you will have two springs on your door which will be color coded.
Garage door torsion springs left or right.
All dura lift springs meet the dasma standard rating of 10 000 door open and close cycles.
On the contrary it is very simple to determine the winding type of a garage door spring.
Torsion springs are non returnable.
Most of the time the end on the right hand wind is red and the left and wind is black as you can see on the graphic below.
Thus they have their end of wire on the right side.
The direction of the wind on the spring is opposite the side that it goes on ex.
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If one spring is broken on your torsion system we highly recommend replacing both springs.
So if the spring to your left is broken you want to order a right wound spring.
Most standard residential torsion systems have two torsion springs one on the right and left.
Click here for standard cycle to high cycle spring conversions.
Both 10 000 standard cycle and 25 000 high cycle springs are available in left or right wind and in precut or longer lengths.
Install new or use this pair of left install new or use this pair of left and right wound torsion springs to replace broken sectional garage door torsion springs.
As for the torsion springs this system applies a little differently.
With most new garage doors there will be two torsion springs separated by a divider that s located at the midpoint of the door.
The right hand winding springs are wound in a clockwise direction.
This dura lift 250 x 2 x 35 gold right and left wound garage door torsion spring 2 pack is a torsion spring replacement for broken sectional garage door torsion springs.
The left wound spring is installed on the right hand side of the door as your standing inside your garage looking out please measure twice.
With torsion springs the color code demonstrated whether the spring is a right wind or a left wind usually black represents a right wind while the red color represents a left wind garage door spring.
There is a lot of confusion among people regarding right hand winding torsion spring and left hand winding torsion spring.
Made from usa wire and coiled in the usa all torsion spring wire is coated for improved corrosion resistance and easier handling.
The left spring is right hand wound rhw and the right spring is left hand wound lhw.