Remove Garage Door Lock Barrel

Replace a garage door lock or handle with help from a garage do.

Remove garage door lock barrel.

Examine the handle and trim on the interior side of the door. You can just see the wires in the above piccy. Replacing the lock or handle on a garage door can be accomplished with the appropriate tools. Close your garage door and remove your existing garage door lock.

Grab the pin with a pair of pliers to remove the pin from the shaft. Depending on the model you have you may need to pry it out with a crowbar and hammer or remove it with a drill. Remove the pin that secures the inside lock handle to the lock shaft in the center of the door panel. You can remove the lock measure it and replace it while you wait for the new one to arrive it only takes a matter of seconds with the key to remove the cylinder.

Insert a straightened paper clip into this hole and apply pressure to release the interior handle. Use a lock assembly kit to mount the new lock on the inside of the. Locate the lock cylinder on the interior face of the door. You can also open a door by using the old wire clothes hanger trick.

Pull down and you should release the lockingbolts. Remove the nuts and bolts securing the lock bars to the cylinder with a wrench. There may be a small pinhole holding the handle in place. However the bad news for you since you say that you ve not got a key is that you generally need a key to be able to easily take the cylinder out.

Place a nail over the pin and tap the nail with a hammer until you expose part of the pin. Step 3 install replacement. Just like my door. Slide the bars slightly away from the cylinder towards the vertical sides of the doorframe.

Place the nuts and bolts aside. Slide it under the door and catch the wires that actuate the lockingbolts.