Nylon Ball Garage Door Rollers: Smooth and Durable Operation for Your Home

RolidnotRolidnot: Replaced my 17 year old garage door wheels with these new ball bearing wheels. The door was definitely quieter and smoother with the new wheels.

I greased the 4 inch metal stems all around with Mobil One grease and sprayed the wheel bearings with Teflon.

It’s a pretty simple job for most of the wheels except the two bottom wheels that have brackets that are typically attached to the door springs via stainless cables.

DO NOT unbolt the bottom 2 wheel brackets with the stainless pulley cables attached to the door springs. Those brackets are under a LOT of tension and if you remove those bolts under tension, very bad things can happen!

There is a way to remove the two bottom wheels on the tension brackets without unbolting them from the door. It requires unbolting a wall bracket (NOT the door bracket) and/or bending the metal track a bit with Vise Grips. Google that process and please proceed with great care.

In 2006, I had the original wheels replaced by a “precision” door company and they skipped the bottom wheels in the tension brackets. Now that I’m retired, I did them myself and changed all the wheels.

Look at the photo of the 3...

United States on Aug 18, 2023

T. MurphyT. Murphy: The media could not be loaded.  I received the Garage Door rollers today in the mail. After reading thru a few of the negative reviews, I decided to test each roller, made sure it spun smoothly and were no defects. All rollers spun, no issues. Family moved into the house back in 98'-99', and I don't believe the garage door rollers were ever replaced. Wouldn't surprise me if they were original. The old rollers were steel, VERY worn, bearings completly shot, and made a LOT of noise.

Before replacing the rollers, I made sure to head over to Youtube and watch a few how-to-replace garage door rollers. I followed the directions given in the video, and replaced all 10 rollers with ease. Took me probably close to 20 min. The top rollers gave me a little trouble, having to be on a ladder and having to twist the rail to remove roller.

Once all new Nylon rollers were replaced, the difference in noise was amazing. It might not be as drastic for a lot of people, but the condition of the old steel rollers and how much noise they made, you could tell right away how quiet these Nylon rollers were.

United States on Apr 10, 2018

CDP's Onceagain habit of purchasing: I just installed 10 new rollers from Dura-Bilt and replaced other rollers that were rusted and worn. These are quieter, but I came up two short so the two top rollers are still original and the best of the old ones. Just bent out the guide rail below the curved portion and one at a time removed the old and installed an new roller from bottom to top on each side. Took about 30 minutes, a short ladder, channel lock pliers and a large screwdriver. A little dirty, other wise easy. Pried out roller from area where a slight bend was made. Slid new roller in place and put it back in place. Easy enough. Like I said, a little quieter.

United States on Jan 22, 2018

L. Sosa: The price seems just shockingly low on these for how nice they are. I called a garage door repair place first and they quoted me $9 per roller replaced plus a minimum of $105 on labor. Whoa! Even if these aren't the best rollers money can buy, they sure seemed solid and are Nylon/ball bearing types that I was told to get. Husband and I installed them in about 30 minutes ourselves after watching a YouTube video. Compared to my old metal creeky rollers that have been on there for ages, these are a way quieter glide. We have a split garage door in our 2 car garage. I did my side of the garage as a test case because I actually had broken rollers to replace. Now I am back on line just an hour later to order another set because my husband just wants these installed on his garage door for the noise reductionl. Cuts the sound level about in half!!

United States on Dec 15, 2017

microtv: My garage door has gradually gotten noisier over the years. Most of the noise is from the opener, which I really need to replace one of these years. But a couple months ago a rumbling noise was added to the mix. It has been my experience that new noises generally don't solve old issues and sure enough, this was the case here. The upper roller shaft on one side was bent. Still trying to figure out how that happened. Be that as it may, I found these rollers. And the first thing I learned was that I needed two sets of them since I have an oversize door. The basic package has enough rollers for a standard door, I needed two more rollers. *sigh* But now I have some spares should any of these fail.

From start to finish, it took two hours. Replace one at a time. Take the time to clean all the old scuz and crud from the hinges that hold the rollers. Grease the roller shafts to keep them from rusting. The only tricky part is the cables that fasten to the bottom of the door and go up to the roller spring. If you are not very very careful, that cable will let go while removing the bottom hinge. If it does, and you survive its flying around, you may never get it back on again, or if...

United States on Jul 28, 2017