Replacing Hoses on an FJ60

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Some of the heater hoses on my '81 FJ sounded like they were filled with Rice Bubbles when I squeezed them, and the bottom radiator hoses liiked a bit iffy (but they were damn hard to see at all.

So, I thought I'd spend a productive Sunday morning replacing every rubber hose on the truck. 64 hoseclips and 9 hours later I was ready to kill whichever idiot at Toyota designed the engine bay layout.
Top rad hose - too easy
bypass hose - unbelievable. Eventually had to take the thermostat housing off (another trip down to the shop for gaskets - didn't have any so bought a blank and made my own).
Bottom hoses (2 - 'cos the truck has aircon) - take off the bashplate - curse the burk who put the old clips facing the engine so it was almost imposible to undo them - manouver the strangely-shaped pipe out (damn that holding bracket) and clean it off. Tried to get to the waterpump outlet to clean the gunk/powdery stuff off. Impossible. Ended up splitting an old sanding belt and finally managed to wear most of the crap off (as well as most of the skin off my nuckles).
Trying to get both large hoses and the heater hose back on took over an hour.
Finally have a beer.
Heater hoses - seemed to be millions of them - some about an inch long and damn near impossible to get off (especially the one on the passenger side firewall). Clean off the metal feeder pipes and make a note to replace them next time.
Crawl under the car and replace the two short rearheater hoses. Easy.
Another beer!
Fill 'er up.
Watch all the water p*ss out everywhere.
Tighten the 2 clips I thought I'd done up properly.
Fill 'er up again.
Have another beer. Pray.
Looks OK. Fillup with proper coolant.
Damn - can't take it for a test drive - I'd be over the limit.
Have another beer while it runs to normal operating temp.
NO LEAKS.
YES!!!
Finish off carton and swear that you'll page some poor apprentice to do the damn thing in 80K.

Next weekend it's the wheel bearings :-)