Our little Leyland 154 has to work hard when it does get used and a while back when we were bailing the hay we had an exhaust issue, caught it on a low branch of the only tree in the hay field which broke the stub off the cast elbow!
You can get new elbows still but around the £120 mark it was a bit much for me so I cant loose anything by trying to MIG the old one back together, gave it all a good clean and it turns out the stub is mild steel and was origionally welded on by some pretty porus welding, wrapped a few fire blankets over the bonnet/engine and blobbed away, kept a bit of heat on the cast with a blow lamp and it all seems to be OK
The pups are pleased as they weren't too impressed with the exhaustless tractor!
The very same tractor my mother tried to kill my father with….according to him. Had he not dropped it into a ditch ,with him underneath it, she wouldn’t have been hollered for to move the fecking thing, and she wouldn’t have dropped the clutch and spat him out, breaking his leg in the process….Family history at its best 🤣🤣🤣