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Originally Posted by dsraven
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That is clever!
If you build something like that I'd give some thought to how you would release it from underneath with whatever tools are kept in the truck.
First hot day last spring, out of town, the wife's jeep battery suffered an internal thermal runaway and it shut off, coasted most of the way to the side of the road, tried a restart. Put it in park + brake to get out and look under the hood and that was all the battery had in it, could not even run 4-way flashers. I know (now) how to take the console apart to release the shifter, but without power to wind back the rear brake pistons it is just a large roadside brick. I had to have it towed to a place I could buy a battery and pair of vice grips. Thank goodness I knew what an almost too hot to touch battery meant, tow truck driver wanted to drop us off at the dealership - at 4pm on the Saturday of a long weekend !