That's the spirit, Its already F#*&@% so what are you going to do perhaps F it up worse big deal.
I re attached all the coolant lines but ordered all new ones and still had to go down to napa an rummage through their wall of coolant hoses to pick one or two out, I purchased a large piece of gates heater hose to replace the crankcase vent hoses.
Blocking the EGR should not cause any runability problems unless you have to pass emissions, even then if it was blocked and all the equipment was there you would probably be ok.
Distributor should pop out , just the one bolt holding it in .
If you end up needing any top end bits or pieces I have some misc odds and ends laying around.