Update!
I worked about 13 hours last night, came home and slept about an hour and half and began working on the truck when ctman arrived. I'm pretty much exhausted, but wanted to let everyone know the outcome on my blown-up-sumpin'....
ctmandu and mrs. ctmandu came down to swap a step bumper for my visor. Well that was the initial plan anyway. We sort of figured an hour or two to sort out the leaking hose and then get the visor off, and maybe mount the bumper.
What we discovered is that Mickey Mouse does in fact do automotive work. As catman tore into my intake to ease access to the plumbing, we began to discover all sorts of poor workmanship, and sloppy shortcuts. The truck still has all the stock smog stuff, and this slowed things down also. When the intake manifold was finally off, some poking around in the suspect area led to the discovery of a rotten freeze plug back by the starter. Out it came, along with a lot of gunk and rust and crap. ctman also pointed out that the intake gasket still had a couple of plugs in it blocking coolant flow between the intake and the block. We all pretty much agreed that the cooling system has had nothing but water in it for several years. Well this is about 3 hours after we started, and ctman had brought several intakes and hoses and so forth. I finally suggested that the two of them take a break for lunch, because I also had a guy here from 2 1/2 hours away looking at another vehicle I have for sale. He was exhaustively thorough and even did a compression check before handing over any money and confirming his decision. So while the ctman crew went to eat, I bent and plugged the smog fitting in the exhaust manifold, and started removing the carb and pieces from my intake. When they returned, we went to the parts store to get some new hoses, a freeze plug, new clamps, etc. We returned and had a little over an hour of light left to try to get it all back together. By this time, I'm pretty much in zone land, so ctman was sort of giving me direction while he and his wife removed the visor. I got some of the intake back together, but couldn't get the freeze plug started. I was ready to give up and go inside and go to bed, but ctman got it started with a little ingenuity and let me finish it. He then proceeded in record time to reinstall the intake and fab some hoses from various new hoses and fittings we'd bought. The three of us made quite a team, even if I was the 'weakest link'...hahaha...Filled the radiator, and fired it up. One little leak at the T fitting under the intake, and a little at the thermostat housing. Tightened that stuff up and voila, I had a running truck!
So, a HUGE thank you to ctmandu and mrs catmandu!!!! His truck is pretty awesome in person, and they are really unpretentious, down to earth people. They basically donated their entire Sunday afternoon to me and my truck, for not much more than a lunch and a bit of gas money. That's pretty rare these days, and he knows his stuff. If the truck wasn't such a mess to start with, it would have taken half the time, but they stuck with me until they saw it run...
Got a feeling we'll be seeing quite a bit more of each other over the summer.

Hopefully at some point I'll be able to repay them with some rare unobtanium LUV item...
Now...where's my pickle fork...