High Lift Garage Door Spring Calculator

We will use the corrispoding weight you ordered to customize the perfect spring s to balance your garage door.

High lift garage door spring calculator. The cable drum should be cast on an aluminum alloy and it should have an end bearing plate just beyond it. Door weights 150lbs and under will be shipped with 1 high cycle life torsion spring. Measure the distance from the top of the closed door to the bottom of the horizontal track. A high lift garage door extends your garage door s track so that the door hugs the wall and goes up higher before the horizontal curve.

High lift kits increase the vertical rise of the garage door so that the door reaches the horizontal track closer to the ceiling than with a standard lift garage door. You can view other options and prices at our garage door bearings and plates page. The cable drum can be found after the end of the spring assembly. Rules and formulas door weight.

Video credit to suzukas2000. Standard spring anchor bracket kits cost 7 50 and the end bearing plate kits cost 9 00. If you need a shaft to convert to a high lift system we recommend buying a shaft locally from a steel supply center or a steel scrap yard. 1 divide the total spring s ippt by the cable drum multiplier 2 multiply the spring ippt by the number of turns and then divide by the hi moment arm high lift.

This form will follow the first two sections of our high lift garage door conversion tutorial.