Yes I agree I need to look into why the stud snapped I am hoping it's just fatigue as my disco is high mileage 218k almost. I believe that the warping problems is the inlet manifold not the exhaust but I may be wrong on this.

I honestly didn't know of a left handed drill bit, I will look into it thanks

Thanks for that, I think it's almost flush, its the bottom front one so not in plain view, I have decent extrators (snapon) and no I know the joys of snapping them. I'm new to the td5 engine only had it for a few months so not worked on it yet, I've had me share of 200 and 300 discovery's. I'm...

Hiya guys and gals, I have a td5 discovery with 15p engine. I have a snapped exhaust manifold stud, I've got a new set of studs and gasket ready to do the job, I just wounderd if anyone knows what I'm letting me self in for? What sort of job it is to do as I have limited time so need to plan...