F-Body leaf spring replacement - advice?

[Ricter]

I'm looking for any advice, tips, tricks, or gotchas for replacing the leaf springs on my 1969 Firebird. Please share your experiences, because I've never done this before.

Here's my challenges:
1. Lack of experience - but no lack of willingness to dive into it anyway.
2. Only basic hand tools available.
3. No garage.
4. Task must be completed start to finish in 1 day. Because of #3 + lots of kids in my neighborhood + strict HOA = can't leave the car up on jack stands overnight.
5. No one to assist, or at best a complete non-auto oriented friend to help out / keep me company.

My new springs will come with new front eye bushings. However I'll need to buy all the other rubber components seperately. Shackle bushings, leaf spring pads, etc...
Can anyone recommend a good, and still cheap option for these? These are stock replacement springs, not lowering springs, so I don't need Del-A-Lum bushing or anything, and my budget is next to nil. So price is a concern.



Thanks.