Friday, July 3, 2020

My Fix - 2020-0620 - Garage Door Trolley Replacement

I noticed one day that the garage door could only open two feet then it stuck. Got in from the side door and noticed the inner slide of the T-Rail was totally ripped as below.

Inner Slide Ripped
Inner Slide Ripped
 
Outer Carrier De-Railed
Outer Carrier De-Railed
Got on eBay and placed a quick order of Liftmaster 41A3489 carriage trolley assembly. A few days later, the parts came with following pieces.

Garage Door Opener
 
Garage Door Opener
From E-Bay
 
From E-Bay

Found a Saturday and went through following steps:
  1. Open the garage door and keep it open. Took a 2x4 to block the door from falling
  2. Pull down the manual release rope and remove the lock wire and the pin to detach trolley and garage door.
  3. Mark on the tension screw to assure that I can tight the screen to restore the original tension of the chain.
  4. Loose and Remove the tension screw
  5. Remove the link clip-on spring and the link cap to disconnect the chain
  6. Remove the stopping screw and detach the T-Rail from the garage door opener
  7. Very gently lift the loose end of the T-Rail to slide the broken trolley out
  8. Slide the new trolley back in
  9. Reverse previous steps to tights all the screws
  10. Remove the 2x4
  11. Worked!
Step 1: 2x4 to block the falling door
 
Step 2: Disengage door
Step 3/4/5: Release the tension and chain spring clip
 
Step 6: Stopping screw and detach door opener
Step 7: Slide trolley out
 
Step 11: Completion

The torn piece

This is a super easy job. It took me about an hour to compete the tested to assure the whole thing worked. Well, there is small difference. By comparing picture of step 3/4/5 and step 10, I noticed the washer got changed from the right side to the left!