Troubleshooting Ratchet Strap Double J-Hooks Stuck Together
Updated 10/18/2025 | Published 11/03/2022
Question:
Connected two double J hook ratchet straps together since it was asked if you could in another post. Worked great but now I have a problem. How in the world donypu get them apart?? They are so tight, no matter how I have turned them it seems as if its an impossible task. Suggestions?? Thank you.
asked by: Mike
Expert Reply:
If your Erickson Ratchet Tie-Down Strap w Double J-Hooks # EM78627-MS are stuck then I recommend holing one of them in place with something like a vice and tapping on the other one with a rubber mallet at different angles to slowly loosen it up. Just be sure the places you hit it aren't reinforcing the hooks being connected.
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Ben
10/18/2025
The trick to disconnecting these hooks is to make the right amount of space so they can be separated easier. Here's the way to disconnect this type of double J hooks and it is not difficult. 1 . On both of the hook ends squeeze the cargo strap down into the corners. This is accomplished by having your thumbs on the curved parts of the triangle part and taking your pointing fingers and squeezing the cargo straps down. 2. Once the Cargo straps are pushed down; twist the hooks ends about 10 or 15 degrees while pushing the hooks together with a slight twisting action and they the ends kind of just separate. Hope that makes sense. Pictures or a video would be better on explaining but hopefully this gets the message accross okay.
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Erickson Ratchet Tie-Down Strap w Double J-Hooks - 2" x 27' - 3,300 lbs
- Ratchet Straps
- Flatbed
- Trailer
- Truck Bed
- Double-J Hooks
- 1 Strap
- Manual
- 21 - 30 Feet Long
- 1-1/8 - 2 Inch Wide
- 2001 - 3500 lbs
- Erickson
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Mark P.
3/23/2024
I would love to see a rubber mallet do this. I’m using a hammer like Thor uses and can’t get them apart.