Well, if the drive axle is already in place (on the new one), it's really not that hard. More of a PIA. If you needed to swap your old drive axle into a new trailing arm, you would need to press the old one out. That would require a puller.
The biggest pain is that you'll have to disconnect a brake line, which will require bleeding the whole system once you're done. The best case senario is that you find a salvage yard trailing arm with the drive axle still attached. I'm not quite sure if they disassemble the entire unit when they break the car down.
I did not have to press the old shaft out ( I think we tapped it free from the other side...don't remember). Hopefully the good arm comes with a good bearing, brake line, parking cable and maybe the abs sensor. The hard part for me was getting the axle nut off (needed heat- new nut/collar), and the abs sensor off w/o breaking it.
now OT- but I need to replace the output shaft seals on my diffy. Will that shaft drop down from the lsd? Or do you have to take it out of the hub also..? Looks like it has a insert that won't allow it to just drop down (like on my e21 lsd)...
I did something amazingly similar to my car, except I managed to hit the curb head on. Just bent the rim terribly and knocked my alignment out. I have the piece of the wheel sitting on my desk right now.
Good luck with it. I know everyone is recommending the blizzacks, but I have had real good experience with the Dunlop winter sport M3 tires...
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