Not that your awning will hold that much weight.
Rv awning lock lever broken.
The awning will not go up.
To replace the cam lock disassemble the awning assembly completely.
This allows enough slack to lift the arms off the catch.
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.
The lever is stuck on the up position.
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.
Dometic awning is in the out position.
Replace the cam locks and reassemble the entire awning.
I went to open and use my awning yesterday and found that the direction lever spring has broken.
It might take two persons to do this.
It is important to allows take every safety precaution available when working with an rv awning.
For procedure normally i have to flip the lever and unroll the awning a half turn or so.
An awning strap in good condition will hold your whole body weight before breaking.
See the attached manual for the dometic manual.
Both have that lever on the forward end that you reverse in order to move the awning.
Sometimes when it is hard to release you need to pull down slightly on the pull strap.
Ok this all started with a broken window from storms.
I can still roll up and down ok but the lever does not stay locked in either the up or down positions.