Installing New Rollers On Garage Door

Be sure to add some white lithium grease here as well to help the rollers spin smoothly.

Installing new rollers on garage door.

To hold the section in place lightly toenail a 16d nail into the frame and bend it over the section. Replacing metal rollers with nylon ones is a garage door upgrade best left to the professionals. Insert the roller wheel into the garage door track. The alignment should be perfect for screws to go through.

Garage door rollers attach the garage door to the garage door tracks and allow the garage door to open and close smoothly. Add brackets and rollers before setting them in place and stack one section on top of another toenailing as you go up. Pull out the hinge away from the door and then old roller out of the sleeve in the hinge. Builder grade rollers are typically either hard plastic or steel with no ball bearings.

Once on site they will remove your old door if there is one and install your new garage door. When you have replaced the bottom 4 rollers you ll realize that you won t be able to replace the top one because it won t line up with the opening in the track. Find new rollers and hinges here. Keep working until you have 1 roller left on the top panel of your garage door.

As with the other garage door rollers the new roller can just slide into the old bracket. The first phase of the replacement process involves unplugging the opener and pulling the manual release cord. Engineers will connect the door and set up all the controls testing them to make sure everything is operating as planned. Rollers come in several designs.

Insert the new roller s shaft into this sleeve. Step 5 insert roller wheel. The installation team will call when they re on their way and will arrive at the pre arranged time. Pull the garage door down until you reach the next roller.

Pry the roller out of the track with your screwdriver so you can replace it with the new one. Align the mounting holes on the hinge with those on the door. Slide a new roller in and insert the roller back into the track. Replace all except the top rollers on the side you re working on.

Bend the track back into alignment and then roll the door all the way open.