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Today was a good day!

I worked all morning, found a friend to help me, and I got the entire water hose system back together! Everything! Every clamp! Every Hose! Every hard, steel, "s" shaped hard line that needed snaking around and over the frame from nowhere near where it actually ended up being, I got it all.

New clamps everywhere, even double clamped a couple of the points for good measure.

The water system is DONE! Ready for filling.

Yesterday we got the crossmember, starter, and parts for the cooling system, today I installed all the cooling system, there's just a few more things to do.

I have the motor set at TDC on #1, ready for the distributor to drop in.

I removed the gear from the old distributor so if I wanted to I could crank it by hand and prime the oil pump.

The plugs are removed, and new plugs will be installed after I've gotten oil pressure and oil throughout the engine again.

We are very close to finishing. There's still a hundred things to do, but I'm happy to have gotten some things done myself today without anyone's aid, my chest bone is feeling better. It feels good to have made progress.

I'll still need help, or at least someone who knows what's going on help me with the distributor install, and the frame brace install.

I'll be plugging the MSD box and everything ignition related back in place before the "incident" because those all were functioning, and the problem turned out to not be related to any of that stuff, so I expect it all to work as it's supposed to. Got me a new distributor too! Snow White is gonna be Pimpin!

Since I've been through almost every aspect of the car, she'll get a good detailing as well once she's well.