Rv Awning Lock Lever Broken

Replace the cam locks and reassemble the entire awning.

Rv awning lock lever broken.

The right side forward most arm for the awning comes down in front of this window and instead of unrolling the awning to access the window i just unlatched the arm from the bottom and swung it out. Both have that lever on the forward end that you reverse in order to move the awning. This allows enough slack to lift the arms off the catch. It might take two persons to do this.

Dometic awning is in the out position. I can still roll up and down ok but the lever does not stay locked in either the up or down positions. The fault of the strap breaking has nothing to do with your method. It should be an a e dometic model or carefree of colorado.

Sometimes when it is hard to release you need to pull down slightly on the pull strap. It is important to allows take every safety precaution available when working with an rv awning. The lever is stuck on the up position. Remove the awning fabric from the awning arms and then remove the tops of the arms to access the torsion assembly.

For procedure normally i have to flip the lever and unroll the awning a half turn or so. Ok this all started with a broken window from storms. I m concerned that it will release while on the road and certain doom will follow. The lever will answered by a verified rv mechanic.

I went to open and use my awning yesterday and found that the direction lever spring has broken. See the attached manual for the dometic manual. Not that your awning will hold that much weight.