After the head was cleaned it looked like new.

I had Ozark Tractor at Preston send the head out for a valve job and had them install the new manifold.  I twisted off a stud removing the old manifold and had them remove it from the head.  It came back looking great.

My wife is becoming suspicious that this project is getting expensive.

I bought an after market manifold new at less than one third what the local dealer wanted for a manifold.  It looked exactly like the original.