Update.
Sorry for the LOOOOOOOONG delay, I am still alive. We bought a piece of property up island from a hoarder and have been doing a lot of clean up, demo and garbage removal. The place does have a shop thought and a tonne of potential.
The water pump went on the cruiser just as we were moving up-island. Luckily, for me, a buddy agreed to drive it up for me before we realized just how much of a "s*** the bed" situation the water pump was in. He limped it from gas station to gas station filling the rad and 4, 2 gallon jugs and just limped it here. I put it in storage and got busy cleaning up the place and fixing the shop up till I could roll the cruiser in there and do the water pump. After cleaning the last owners garbage out fo the shop with a skidsteer and pouring a new floor I finally got around to fixing up the cruiser. First I put the batteries that I had stolen out of it to jumpstart other stuff back in and charged them. Tthen after doing the pump I filled it with coolant and fired it up, only to find a leak and discover that the rad had a crack/pinhole.
I drained it and cleaned up around the hole, soldered it, reinstalled it and pressure tested it before filling it this time *smart*. It held pressure all night. I called it good to go and filled it this morning and now I'm just working the air out of the system.
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All in all I'd call this a good day.