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You can do all 8 with the engine in the car. Recognizing that everyone else's comments are correct. The lowers are of course the easiest, since you can work on the arms out of the car.
So start there and be sure to have extra bushings becasue you will probably tear up one or two before you get the hang of it. A hydraulic press or a big vice makes the job easier, but I suppose you could use a bolt and sockets or a big C-clamp. Either use the pipe nipple or similiar cylinder to confine the bushing when you press it in, or press on a bolt and washer inserted in the metal bushing sleeve. Lots of soap or armorall and the bushing must be absolutely square with the bracket to press in.
Assuming you got the lowers in, then do the passenger side upper. This can be done with the arm in the car by doing one bracket at a time. I did the front first and then the rear. Jack up the corner to relieve some spring pressure, but i was able to do it without compressing the spring. Soak the bushing sleeve, bracket bolts and the welded on nuts with pentrant for a few days before the job. I use a hand impact driver to safely loosen the bolts wherever I had room and had no trouble removing the brackets. My bushing sleeves also were not rusted to the control arm shafts. If they had been, I think would have given up. I did have to pry the arm with a big screw driver to get it lined up to bolt the brackets back on.
I did the driver's side when I replaced the engine mount and alternator bushings, since the A/C compressor and alternator had to be moved out of the way anyway. I did the front control arm bushing first.
Basically my rule was to keep going from the easiest to the hardest and quit if I couldn't get the bushing off the control arm. While I did both lowers on one Sat morning, I then did the passenger side the next Sat morning. A week later I did the passenger side motor mount, control arm bushings and alternator bushings over Sat and Sun. It took me a couple of destroyed bushings to learn how to safely press them in.
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