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Default Assenine Garage Door Cable Setup

My wooden garage door has the cable that goes to the lift spring hook
to a small peg on the bottom of the door. It sort of looks like a
nail head. In other words, if I pounded in a nail and left the head
stick out about 1/8" and hooked the loop on the end of the cable
between the wood and the nail head. What happens is this: If I lift
the door all the way up, which is slightly higher than the open
position which the spring lifts it to, the cable often pops off that
peg because there is no pressure on the cable at that point. Then I
have to spend a half hour running it around all the pulleys and
routing it back to that peg. This happens quite regularly because I
have to often lift the door to it's maximum height to get my pickup
truck in there. I am getting real tired of fixing this every few
weeks. Is there another method of attaching that cable to the door?
By the way, that peg is part of the bottom roller assembly bracket.

Thanks

Mark