Easter Weekend Overhaul: Advice Please!

[Poodle]

I'd suggest buying a new exhaust fitting kit, that's the only thing really likely to cause problems with seized bolts. Doing the beam will be a lot easier if you get a mate to help, fit the shocks to the beam once it's on the car as it's almost impossible to get them on with it unloaded. You don't really need new nuts for the rear shocks, although i'd get new nylocs for the shock pinch bolts at the front. I'm not sure it's possible to detach the brakes from the beam assembly and swap the beam without disturbing brake unions or handbrake cables, got a feeling the bracket for the flexis isn't removable. I would expect the most time consuming jobs to be: beam, front shocks, exhaust, in that order. Hth.