Restoration of a 1961 Chris-Craft

Been working the last few days removing the gauges and wiring.  Found a person in Hartwell GA that popped off the prop.  And when I say popped, it really popped with significant force.  He had done this quite a bit and left the nut on to keep the prop from flying back and possibly hurting someone. Most of the wiring appears okay but it's very brittle.  I'll decide later about how much of it I'll replace. I'm labeling it and attempting to take out the entire harness in one piece.  It's connected to the horn, the steering column and of course the engine which has been already disconnected.     The steering column required a little improvising.  I made a tool to remove the ball joint on the linkage.  I started to remove the swing arm but it wasn't budging and I didn't want to break another wheel puller. Managed to  figure it all out and even built a little stand for the steering column!  

After soaking the prop in WD-40 almost every day and applying more pressure on my wheel puller over the last couple of weeks, the puller snapped.  It doesn't appear that the prop has moved at all.  I'm reaching out to another member of the ACBS for help. But I have managed to remove the rudder that frustrated me until I realized that the bolt that tightens the linkage to the rudder also holds the rudder from coming out.  The book I have says it just drops out and it does, once the bolt is removed.