Easter Weekend Overhaul: Advice Please!

[Kezzieboy]

Evening chaps.

So I've decided Easter weekend is when I'll go home and return my car to standard. This involves all manor of jobs, most of which I have tackled before, but a couple that I haven't. I just thought I'd run it through in my head and ask for advice as to what odd tools and replacement parts I might need, what bits might cause me trouble, and how much time I'm likely to need.

So the list comprises of this:

1. Remove ZX steering wheel and refit standard item
2. Replace airbag ECU
3. Remove full exhaust from turbo and re-fit standard item
4. Replace rear beam with standard item and with new mounts (also need to refit shocks to the beam that's going on)
5. Replace front struts with standard items
6. (Possibly) remove remap and put standard map back on
7. Remove alloys and put steelies back on, with a pair of new tyres and a lick of paint
8. Refit standard headlights
9. Refit standard bonnet badge
10. Refit standard boot badge
11. (possibly) remove roof vinyl
12. Full service with engine and possibly gearbox oil, air, oil and fuel filters.
13. Replace front wiper motor
14. Replace indicator relay
15. Sort out check straps, at least replace driver's, preferably the lot
16. Rear wiper

I think that's it, so a reasonable list to get through, but hopefully nothing too taxing.

I've looked at some guides for the stuff I haven't done before and I think I've got most of it squared away in my head, with a few exceptions.

1. Is fitting shocks to a beam, while both are off the car, as easy as it seems? Do I need to buy any new fastenings?
2. If I am replacing a disk beam with another disk beam, can I avoid bleeding the brakes, and fiddling with the handbrake cables?
3. Is replacing the exhaust fairly straightforward, or should I allow for this being a nightmare due to seized bolts etc?
4. Can anyone suggest an order in which to tackle all this? What is likely to be the most time consuming?

I think that's it for now, but I may update this list as I think of other things that need doing, as I'll use this for a reference.

Also if anyone has link to any particularly good guides for ANY of the above then I'd be very appreciative if you could chuck it in here, as I am by no means a mechanic and need all the help I can get!

Thanks chaps.

Kez