Installing New Garage Door Rollers

Pry open the track near the front of your garage with pliers.

Installing new garage door rollers.

Insert the new roller s shaft into this sleeve. 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. The alignment should be perfect for screws to go through. Find new rollers and hinges here.

Keep prying open the track until you ve bent a 1 in 2 5 cm section. Look for a seam near the top of the vertical piece of track. Again do not do this for the bottom roller. To hold the section in place lightly toenail a 16d nail into the frame and bend it over the section.

Grab a socket wrench and unscrew the retaining bolts to the brackets that hold the garage door rollers. Align the mounting holes on the hinge with those on the door. Roll the door down to the next roller and repeat the same process for removing and replacing the rollers. Center the bottom panel door in the garage door opening and align the vertical tracks with the rollers.

Slide a new roller in and insert the roller back into the track. Bend the track back into alignment and then roll the door all the way open. Attach lag screws into the brackets to hold the tracks in place. Steps for installing a steel insulated garage door prep the bottom panel by attaching any necessary rollers and hinges.

Pull out the hinge away from the door and then old roller out of the sleeve in the hinge. 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. Add brackets and rollers before setting them in place and stack one section on top of another toenailing as you go up. To hold the level in place tape it to the section.

Rollers come in several designs. Grab one side of the track with a pair of pliers and bend it to a 90 degree angle. 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. Insert the roller wheel into the garage door track.

Step 5 insert roller wheel. Builder grade rollers are typically either hard plastic or steel with no ball bearings.