I was grateful for the help of some other Defender friends during this sprint to what ended up not being the finish line. Especially since, as mentioned above, I failed to remove the vent screens before galvanizing and then failed to clean them out before painting. The solution was to drill out every single hole individually. In the second picture here, my father can be seen mentoring Josh (Horsey) on the finer points of a mind (and arm)-numbing task.
