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Originally Posted by sugarwood

It's funny how a thread will have different impact on people.

Some are inspired. Personally, I am now having 2nd thoughts, and thinking this is beyond my capability.
It took Craig, someone with far more experience and tools than I, over 3 months to do this work. (8 months if you count the troubleshooting!)
The big fear on a project like this is biting off more than you can chew. Once it's disassembled into a non-roller, you can't even tow it to the shop to finish what you can't do.

At some point, I will research which smaller steps are the most realistic for the novice who is just looking to do a basic refresh a 30 year old OEM suspension.

When you reach that point you can always remove the trailing arms and take them to a machine shop where they can use a press to do the work.
Of course this means you disconnect your entire rear suspension, which may or may not be OK depending on the scope of your project.
If you only want to replace the bearings and not touch anything else then you are correct about thinking to take the car to a shop.
If on the other end you are refreshing bushings and brakes then take the whole thing apart and use a machine shop for pressing bearings in.
I made the tools shown in Greg's pictures and it worked great!