Lol... better get it done now rather than after work and burning my hands
It was very easy, it took about 10 minutes. I only had to take out 1 bolt from where the pipe joins the exhaust manifold and loosen the other (the plate has a hole and a slit where you can slide it into the other bolt holding it). The put back the bolt and tighten the other one.
If you do this then don't buy it from samrolfe4653 on ebay. Thats who I got mine from and it is scratched up, luckily not where it covers the hole but around it and the guy is a rude a** hole!
It had 78,000 miles on when the turbo go replaced. The symptoms were loud whistling on acceleration (not normal turbo whistle, sounded more like a person whistling), loss of power at 3000rpm and one day a big bang with lots of smoke coming out the exhaust. After that, it was still drivable, but very slow, smoky and the turbo was making a scraping sound. At least it didn't go in "runaway" mode, then I would have been in trouble!
No worries mate, that's what we're here for, to help each other... although not many people seem too interested in helping with diesels, its more Escort and Sierra Cosworths etc...