The springs can indeed be changed outside on the driveway. The only special tool you may need are a steel tube and length of screwed stud with nut and washers to extract defective spring eye bushes from the chassis. These original bushes may still be serviceable, but it’s sensible to change them while the springs are off. You may need to use an angle grinder to cut the ends off seized bolts in which case you’ll need to remove their hanger bolt bushes from the chassis afterwards. Sometimes they can be drifted out. Sometime the inner part of the bush breaks free, and then you can get a hacksaw blade in to cut the outer sleeve of the bush and chisel out.
To keep the leaf spring working correctly, allow some oil to soak in between the leaves before you go ahead and fit them. After procedure in the workshop manual for setting the spring to the correct compression dimension before final tightening of the bolts. the spring will be supplied with bushes fitted, but you’ll need to order the chassis bushes.
This all assumes that your chassis is solid and hasn’t deflected in anyway.
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