Right Wind Or Left Wind Garage Door Tension Spring

If one spring is broken on your torsion system we highly recommend replacing both springs.

Right wind or left wind garage door tension spring.

X 32 in green right hand wind garage door torsion spring 0 243 x 1 3 4 in. As for the torsion springs this system applies a little differently. The color code on a torsion spring indicates whether it is a right wind or left wind spring with black indicating right wind and red indicating left wind. 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.

X 32 in red left hand wind. If you have only one spring on your garage door just remember that if the spring is on the left side of the bracket it is right wind and if it is on the right of the bracket it is left wind. On the contrary it is very simple to determine the winding type of a garage door spring. All springs come with a free nylon center bushing.

The right hand winding springs are wound in a clockwise direction. Winding bars are 18 in length and are also advised when winding and un winding springs. The left spring is right hand wound rhw and the right spring is left hand wound lhw. Garage door torsion spring 0 250 in.

If there are multiple springs on your garage door we strongly recommend replacing both torsion springs. 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. On the other hand a left hand winding spring is wound in an anti clockwise direction and has its end of wire on the left side. We we offer a vast selection of wire and spring sizes and both left and right wind torsion springs.

Beyond that the torsion spring is color coded so that technicians can determine the thickness or gauge of the wire. The only exception to this is if you have a door with outside lift bottom fixtures and the cables come off the fronts of the drums as pictured below. X 32 in red right hand wind garage door torsion spring 0 243 x 1 3 4 in. Thus they have their end of wire on the right side.

Notice a sears profe. Usually you will have two springs on your door which will be color coded.