Garage Door Cable Length Chart

Used for typical applications.

Garage door cable length chart.

The overbuilt 8 ft. Most common garage door track. It has 7 strands with 7 wires per strand for strength and durability and an end to end tensile strength of 1 400 lb. Standard torsion spring garage door cables are 7 7 strand 1 8 inch thickness.

Those seven bundles are twisted together to form a cable with a diameter of 1 8 inch. 1 your cable drum manufacture and part 2 the distance from your floor to the centerline of your garage door spring torsion shaft. Garage door safety cable is made of galvanized steel and has a 1 8 in. Designed for garage doors.

These cables have a strong weight capacity of 1 650 pounds. 12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required. If you are interested in assembling your own cables we also sell stop sleeves oval sleeves thimbles and spools. Regardless of the type of cable selected they should contain some sort of crimp to help the cable sit with the drum.

Garage door cable comes in multiple different spools and sizes. When measuring an old cable measure the full length including loops spools thimbles and stops. For standard lift residential garage doors the cable length should be the door height plus 18 inches. Raw cable of 3 32 1 8 5 32 3 16 and 1 4 diameters is also available.

Use the grid below to determine your correct replacement cable length for your garage door cables for doors using torsion springs only.