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Originally Posted by kabish
1. Replace the knock sensors and wiring. (Requires tearing apart the top half of the engine)
2. Replace the LCA bushings (gonna be a long day, I know)
3. Replace the rear control arm bushings (easily accessible)
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I know nothing about #1... but you don't NEED a 20 ton press to do the bushings (I bought the cheaper 12 ton, which did the job and many others have done the front LCA with the oem bottle jack), you can always pull the control arms and pay a shop just to do the press-work. Or tackle it in one of the non-press methods (burning or cutting out).
But having gone from totally worn bushings to new, I don't think you're looking at any kind of catastrophic, can't move the vehicle, type failures there. It's more of a safety (vehicle control degrades) thing, especially at speed.
Regardless, sounds like with 2 weekends, you have plenty of time to do that work. If you skip anything, I'd think the rear control arms are lowest priority (and those were more of a PITA than the front LCA's on mine). You also need to factor in an alignment if you do the LCAs as you'll be messing with the settings... which might add even more of a time crunch.
Good luck
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