George Abbey

This one is gonna be a bit of an odd one with a mountain of photos and a little bit of text. Haven't found the time to write up these blogs recently and as a result there's a bit of a backlog; so as the title suggests, this one's a catch-up! Now that most of the cab was off already, we decided to just rip off the rest to make our lives easier cleaning and repairing that which needed it (99% of the cab parts). Now it was off, the next step was to start sorting the bulkhead out, this involved a...

Right.... here we go again! This one's probably going to be a bit of a photo dump as I'm writing it whilst still in recovery from Temple at War '26. The day started off well, with a visit from Mark & Mike of The Shack Rats. We decided to test the PTO/ winch now that there was no cable to get tangled around itself and just as a tester before we eventually remove it. Only 2 issues occurred during this, at first, an assorted wire decided to wrap itself around the winch driveshaft, following...

Now that the jimmy is home, work must begin! We decided to start by ripping out all of the many many unnecessary electrics from underneath the dash/ inside the engine bay. This plan very quickly crumbled as we realised just how awkward it was to position yourself to where you could actually see under the dash without being poked or prodded by any of the many levers or getting a jumper caught on a jagged edge. Naturally, the next step was to rip the entire cab apart... Step one was to get all...