Those battery tenders are the way to go. As long as you have a power source.
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intheburbs
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Passenger side battery up against the firewall is your primary, driver's side is secondary. Severely drained batteries should be charged with a charger, not your alternator.
Connect the charger to each of them separately. But for starting, you'd want to charge the primary.
Disconnect both, to be completely safe.
intheburbs
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The SSVs have an ignition switch-activated isolator. When the ignition is off, the isolator disconnects the secondary. Ignition turns on, it connects the secondary. If you just turn on the ignition with the hood open (or better, a helper sticking their head over the engine) without starting the engine, you should hear a loud "thunk" of the isolator. It's on the firewall on the driver's side. So disconnecting the primary battery's ground cable should kill the truck.
Otherwise, yeah, just disconnect the ground cable of both batteries.
The post clamp bolt? You could double-nut the threaded end and screw it out that way.
Which nut? The battery clamp nut or the ground wire attaching nut? Plastic on battery? Use a 1/4" drive socket.
I see @Fless answer now. Can you get a socket on the bolt head?
I see @Fless answer now. Can you get a socket on the bolt head?
