Can you manually engage an e-locker without the motor? I'm thinking that it should be possible. It seems that air pressure is required for an ARB, but you can manually engage the cable type locker and I think there's a cable conversion for the e-locker, right? You can do a lot with a "spool" in the rear vs. an open differential like an ARB would give you.
You can indeed manually engage and disengage the e-locker. It is actually rather easy, all you have to do is pull the motor (4 bolts) and move the gear inside the diff left to lock or right to unlock.
I don't think I'm going to have any more problems. My E-Lockers have been great to me so far and my front got me through the entire Rubicon on its own. I simply didn't do a good enough job on waterproofing my plug and that is going to be an easy fix. I think I'm going to take Mike's advice and just create a cocoon of RTV around it to waterproof it. Then when I need to unplug it again (hopefully no time soon) I'll just have to peel away the RTV.
