How To Change Rollers On Garage Door

Lesser Roller Replacement

How to Replace Rollers

These instructions are just for replacing the rollers that are supported by the bottom brackets. This roller tin can be constitute only a few inches off the basis when the door is closed. For additional roller replacement instructions, visit our Top Roller Replacement or our Eye Roller and Hinge Replacement tutorials.

Replacing the bottom roller on a garage door can be extremely dangerous for practice-it-yourselfers when done incorrectly. When you lot install a new roller, do not loosen the bolts that secure the bottom fixture to the garage door. Additionally, practice non remove the cable from the bottom fixture. Failure to adhere to these warnings may cause the door to cock, jamb, or fall, resulting in property harm and/or personal injury or death.

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How to Replace Lesser Garage Door Rollers

Get it right the outset time!

ane. Pull the bottom section of the garage door toward the within of the garage and remove the old roller. If the rail withal contains the roller, bend the rail, as shown in step 4. This volition permit you to remove the roller from the track. Information technology volition be easier to supervene upon the roller if you raise the door a few feet off the ground.
	2. Examine the two guide holes for the roller. If they are non perpendicular to the surface of the rest of the bottom bracket, they are bent. Straighten the guide holes using the stalk of the roller.
iii. Insert the new roller in the bottom subclass. Y'all will demand to pull the lesser section toward the within of the garage once more to practice this.
	4. Bend the rails below the roller, equally shown if you take not done and then already.
5. Lower the garage door to the signal where the roller is side by side to the bent portion of the rails.
	6. Insert the roller in the rail.
seven. Straighten the track with a hammer. Caution: Do not hit the track where there is a roller. Doing so may damage the roller.