Garage Door Tracks To One Side

Adjusting the overhead track.

Garage door tracks to one side.

My garage door is shifting to one side when open. Adjust the brackets on both sides of the door until you have a consistent garage door track margins. Maintenance of an out of balance garage door. Changed them to be the same and now the cables are equal and the track isn t hitting the door.

Measured 15 and the back measured 16 from the wall. Or it could just be that the hardware has become loose over time. Push the door back to adjust the door and get the center aligned again. If you ve had your door for a while or are in and out of it a lot it can easily end up out of alignment.

Thanks for the quick response. Maybe someone bumped into it recently. It is possible that the vertical track down the side has gone out of alignment and shifted due to a slightly loose lag screw. This can happen if your garage door receives an.

It s not uncommon for these tracks to wind up out of alignment. The span from rail to rail is about 1 2 3 4 off but i guess that should be okay. The overhead portion of the garage door track only has one adjustment point. With the door propped open take the s hook out of the support and tighten or loosen the cable as needed.

You will notice that there is one garage door track on each side of the doorway. The overhead track should be the same distance away from the door as the wall. The rollers that your door runs on are guided by two tracks which run from floor to ceiling and continue horizontally parallel to the garage ceiling. Check that it is straight.

You should be able to see about 1 2 to 3 4 of the shaft. By pushing the door back into position you should have made the vertical track straighten.