Mount Garage Door Opener Off Center

The rail ended up being about a foot and a half off center.

Mount garage door opener off center. The opener can be installed within 4 feet to the left or right of the door center if there is a torsion spring or center bearing plate in the way of the header bracket or door bracket area. If your door has extension springs the opener must be installed in the center of the door. I mounted one off center for a door on my own garage that was 16 wide and it worked fine. I had to do it that way because i had virtually no room over head and the spring was set right in the center not allowing me to center the rail.

The great thing with wall mount garage door openers like the chamberlain rj020 is that they save a lot of space when it comes to ceiling use a common problem with most ceiling mounted garage. As you said run perforated angle iron from the center stile to the next stile over. My garage door opener came with the following instructions.