17/05/2026
Well l feel l have neglected my Jungle Rock page for too long so here’s an update for my followers.
This is going to be brief as I need to get on with the Tractor. Basically at the end of the 2024 season we had had a very successful time pulling, we ended up second in the super farm championship with the NETC and won puller of the year  with the Scottish club.
I felt we are still quite down on power compared with the best tractors in the BTPA, so during the close season of 24/25 I decided it was time to make some changes under the bonnet, up till now we have been using an air to air intercooler system which worked very well coupled to a Holset HX55 turbo.  I decided it was time to have a charge cooler under the bonnet so I set out to design my own charge cooler and had that made up. I also wanted to step up to an HX 60 turbo, making room under the bonnet for all this extra equipment was quite a challenge and it took a lot longer than I thought.
Sadly, I never managed to get the tractor out for the 2025 season, so after a few more modifications were carried out just prior to the start of the 2026 season off we went to our first pull of the year at Scorton, I knew we had a problem in building boost but the only way to really test the Tractor is a couple it to the sledge, so after a couple of attempts we only managed to move the sledge a short distance, which I believe was good enough to secure fourth place as quite a few other pullers we’re having the same trouble as me.
I made a few adjustments and on Sunday I really did think I was going to get away. The boost was building up towards 60 psi but my EGT‘s were still struggling as I feel we were probably getting too much fuel, never mind we moved the sledge around 10 m and this gave me a bit more confidence that I could probably manage to make things work.
So here we are a week later and back in the workshop to carry out a few more adjustments before our next Pull at Huntley in a couple of weeks time. The first video I will post will be From a 2024 Pull, the second one was from Scorton last Sunday where we nearly got away. The picture is where we are today prior to starting work on the Tractor.