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I completed a total suspension rework on my 61 P210 about a year ago. I had the old king pins pressed out and had the new bushings pressed in and reamed by a machinest. I also had him remove a inner upper a arm bushing that I broke off while trying to remove. He also pressed and reamed my idler arm bushes. In my opinion the upper inner a-arm bushings were the hardest part of the job. These bushings are sort of threaded into the sheetmetal arms. I say sort of because the threads on the bush are very shallow and wide and there are no well marked threads on the piece that it mates with. The fit ends up being a cross between pressed and threaded. Anyhow, while you are doing this operation the bushes are also being threaded onto the pivot pin and if the bushes aren't "threading" (really cutting) into the arm, the will just bend the arm ends. This is really hard to explain unless you are actually doing it, but I suggest you find the thread in the archive when I was trying to get help with all of this work. (oops, I can't find that thread with search must be in limbo) In order to not damage your upper a-arms when installing the bushes you must create a supporting jig that will hold the arm ends in place. Besides the pressing and reaming of the kingpin bushes it is a total do it yourself job, but you will need the manual. I purchased an old aftermarket kingpin kit off of ebay. It must have been at least twenty years old (it wasn't volvo brand) but it had all of the kingpin parts plus a nice assortment of shims. The rest of the suspension components I bought from GCP but that was back when the doller was much higher. The only other hangup I had was when the machinest installed the kingpin bushes incorrectly even though I had provided him with a clear diagram and explanation. Since I did this all pretty recently I could help explain all of the steps of the operation if you decide to do it yourself.
I also had all of my parts media blasted (partly payback for the bad bushing install) and I put on a nice coat of Eastwood chasis black, and it looks and rides great.
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