Installing New Garage Door Rollers

Grab one side of the track with a pair of pliers and bend it to a 90 degree angle.

Installing new garage door rollers.

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. Keep prying open the track until you ve bent a 1 in 2 5 cm section. If you re thinking of ordering a new garage door with us and want to know more about what the installation process entails this page has all the information you need. Center the bottom panel door in the garage door opening and align the vertical tracks with the rollers.

Pry open the track near the front of your garage with pliers. Step 5 insert roller wheel. When you arrange a roller garage door installation with rollerdor you can look forward to impeccable customer service from start to finish resulting in a high quality installation that will last for many years. Roll the door down to the next roller and repeat the same process for removing and replacing the rollers.

Find new rollers and hinges here. Builder grade rollers are typically either hard plastic or steel with no ball bearings. Again do not do this for the bottom roller. Steps for installing a steel insulated garage door prep the bottom panel by attaching any necessary rollers and hinges.

Sorry to sound like a broken record but it s important. Align the mounting holes on the hinge with those on the door. Attach lag screws into the brackets to hold the tracks in place. How to replace upper garage door rollers.

Grab a socket wrench and unscrew the retaining bolts to the brackets that hold the garage door rollers. The alignment should be perfect for screws to go through. Look for a seam near the top of the vertical piece of track. Garage door rollers attach the garage door to the garage door tracks and allow the garage door to open and close smoothly.

Slide a new roller in and insert the roller back into the track. Pull out the hinge away from the door and then old roller out of the sleeve in the hinge. Insert the new roller s shaft into this sleeve. To hold the section in place lightly toenail a 16d nail into the frame and bend it over the section.

Bend the track back into alignment and then roll the door all the way open. To hold the level in place tape it to the section.