Yes there is a special tool.

Can it be done without it, yes.

How bad of a job is it? I'd not do it again, I'd take mine to a shop and let them do it.

First of all my rear most bolt was frozen to the inner sleve of the LCA bushing. So I had no way of eve getting the LCA off. I ended up cutting the LCA off and getting one from a j-yard.

I used a porta power to press the bolt out and the rest of the rubber had to be burned out with a torch. Then I had to mutilate the rest of the bushing to get the rubber out, I then had to cut the outer sleeve in two places with my sawzall and then beat the pieces out with a punch and a hammer.

I then cleaned the bushing sleeve out with a sandpaper flapper wheel. I test fit the bushing. No dice.

I put the bushing in the freezer. I heated the sleeve up with a torch. No dice.

Then I took the sandpaper flapper wheel and went to town on the bushing sleeve and made it shine. I'm sure I took a few thousandths off the ID. I got it to start this time and had to put everything on it I could with the Porta power and it would only go if I hit the outer sleeve with a mini sledge with the porta power forced against it.

It was not a fun nor easy project.

I'd take mine to a shop. And I don't say that very often.

Joe