Hi all, haven't realy had a chance to work on the loader until last night. Pulled the centre exhaust section off to fix the holes in it, it's certainly seen better days but hopefully a bit of weld will keep it going for a while. I'd imagine a new one would have a pretty scary price tag, turbo exh housing is just as bad. I've never seen cast rust like this stuff on any other engine cat must of used some cheap rubbish for these parts. Managed to buy a service manual off eBay so that will come in handy to. Anyone made an exhaust manifold before? I bought a Bridgeport clone at the sale where I got the loader so I'm tempted to try and fab one when I get some tooling.