quit your damn belly aching you have the best dang hotrod on the planet. if you pull the distributor and the oil pump drive out first. you shouldn't have to do all the other crap, at least I didn't.
just wait until he changes the oil pump in a smallblock, he'll know what a pain in the *** really is.
the last time I pulled the pump on the b block, took a couple hours, give or take.