Removing Garage Door Rollers

Pull the garage door so the roller lines up with the bent track and pop the roller out to replace it.

Removing garage door rollers.

How to safely remove a residential roller door by yourself. The first and most important step in the removal of a garage door is the release of the tension in the springs. Find new rollers and hinges here. As a disclaimer i advise that where possible this should be done with 2 people and even if you d.

For me unscrewing the brackets was much simpler and only took a few minutes per roller. How to replace upper garage door rollers. Garage doors even thin metal doors are very heavy and can come down with great force without the springs carrying the bulk of their weight. I fall in the second camp.

Pull out the hinge away from the door and then old roller out of the sleeve in the hinge. In case your garage door is made of steel then the hinges would be secured with hex headed screws. To remove extension springs open the garage door all the way and attach c clamps or locking pliers to the tracks on both sides to prevent the door from rolling down once the springs are removed. Go to the other side of your garage door and bend the area of vertical track near the seam.

Again do not do this for the bottom roller. For the wooden garage door use the 7 16 inch wrench to remove the nuts that are used to hold the through bolts on the roller hinge. Removal of extension springs for extension spring hardware the tension in the springs disappears almost completely as soon as the door is completely opened. Step 4 remove rollers.

Grab a socket wrench and unscrew the retaining bolts to the brackets that hold the garage door rollers. Use the 3 8 inch wrench to remove these.