the manifold is finally back on with 6 weeks to go before our trip to Slovenia

So manifold catch up I took the manifold back to Cast Iron services for the third time,they put much more weld on and left it for Jon and I to drill. 

so marked up where the stud should go and took dad over to Malcolm Leylands and he helped with his pillar drill 

and with no filing of the stud hole Jon just fitted it.

so its finally on and all seems Ok 

we  even started to pack the car......