if the trailing arm was that rusted, you may have some issues with hardware removal to drop the suspension.

I would crawl under there and see just how corroded all the nuts and bolts are, and I would get access to an oxy-acetylene torch just for good measure.

Something that would take a day and a half with good hardware, may take you a week if you can't move the nuts and bolts.

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