Garage door noise/squealing

[PoorOwner]

What causes the garage door to make a squealing noise when opening and almost as it reach fully open position? I have replaced the rollers with plastic sealed bearing ones and slightly greased the rails with silicone grease. It was quiet for a while but the weather got colder.

Would putting a drop of oil in each roller pin and hinge quiet the noise? I undertstand the pin is not supposed to spin?

 

[Sunbimmer]

I have that too and it looks like it is some kind of steel plate that touches the rail at some point.



I have to figure out what I can do with that, because it is ANNOYING.

 

[Lurch67]

I have the same problems every few months. Clean the rails of grease around the 90 degree bend with WD40 and a clean rag. The grease/dirt cause my track wheels to squeeze and stick.

 

[Kevin54]

Look close at the rails when the door is going up to see if something is scraping the rail. If something is scraping it will shine a portion of the rail up also. I was going to suggest checking all of your rollers but I see you swapped them out. Sometimes the factory rollers will wear and let the shaft slide out towards the rail.

A little drop or two of 3-in-One oil wouldn't hurt. Also check to see if the rail is the same dimension at the top as it is against the front of the garage. It could be that the rails are skewed a little making them out of square. You could make a mark on each rail up towards the bend with a Sharpie, then measure from the back of one rail to the opposite mark, then do the same with the other rail. You may just have to square them up so the door is coming straight up and not tryint to shift sideways when coming up.

 

[Criss]

If its a torsion spring door oil the spring when closed and when in the open position. I wonder if the spring (either torsion or extension) need tighten. The springs should assist the opener. I had a 16x8 insulated steel backed garage door actually strip the teeth from the opener sprocket because the torsion spring lost some of its original tension. I run a lumber yard and called my garage door vendor he told me the most important thing you can door for your garage door is oil it regularly. He recommended an old school thumb pump oil can with a decent length goose neck and a bottle of mobil 1 5w oil. Oil every moving part of the door annually. Since doing so its unreal how quiet and smooth the door operates. I do mine every year when we turn the clocks back as a reminder.

 

[upndown]

Some door cos. now use a plastic bushing instead of a metal bearing as a center bearing, when it gets dry it will squeak and chirp like crazy!! use a plastic extension on a can of silicone and squirt some in there. Do NOT loosen springs!! Also lubricate your opener.. especially if it's screw drive..

 

[djjsr]

Open your door a few inches and put a level on the bottom panel. When the door is hanging on the cables, the panel must be level and the tracks must be plumb. If not, the door will probably shift to one side when it's lifted and if it's bad enough, it will scrape or squeal.

Also look at the space between the edge of the door and the track. If the door is raising evenly, that space should be around 1/2" on both sides. If it's a little off it's no big deal. If it's way off, it usually means either the door is not level and/or the tracks are not plumb.

 

[Sunbimmer]

Good advice here, thanks guys

What causes the garage door to make a squealing noise when opening and almost as it reach fully open position? I have replaced the rollers with plastic sealed bearing ones and slightly greased the rails with silicone grease. It was quiet for a while but the weather got colder.

Would putting a drop of oil in each roller pin and hinge quiet the noise? I undertstand the pin is not supposed to spin?

Poorowner thanks for asking this

 

[PoorOwner]

I don't have any spray lube so I have found this.

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc...silicone+spray&storeId=10051#customer_reviews

I am not happy with my garage door! the bottom of rails was like this \ / because the concrete perimeter was too close and that needed to be cut back and is now straight. Now still makes alot of noise when opening near the top. I can't believe people can accept that for years, they even took out the bottom rollers to get past the unparallelness

 

[upndown]

they even took out the bottom rollers to get past the unparallelness[/QUOTE]

 

[djjsr]

No bottom rollers?

Now I'm confused.

What are your cables attached to?

 

[1jjpop]

Go to www.ddmgaragedoors.com A good site on garage doors...

 

[PoorOwner]

I have all rollers now. A garage door guy came in and cut down the concrete blocks for me so the rails are parallel together, but I don't think he checked anything for the top of open position. which I am going to check tonight.