Turned this.
Into this.
I was dreading drilling the subframe for the brackets but that turned out to be the easiest bit, the sub frame is apparently made of cheese.
Getting the nuts on the other wide was dead fiddly and access limited but nothing you can't fix with tape rapped round your fingers.
The whole thing would have gone fine except for the bloody top nut on the old nearside outside link. It basically got to the last nuts worth of thread and seized. I peeled open three 17mm spanners in the process of trying to get it off. Took the brakes off for better access but still a nightmare. Was close to hacksaw when, with wedges in holding things in place and a mahoosive bar, it turned. I have bruised hands. It added 2.5 hours of fecking about to the process which I could have done without but hey, standard issue DIY attempt.
Ran out of daylight so it's just awaiting some duralac (which I though my old man had but he'd lost), torquing up and setting the toe before a full geo.
The bumpsteer shims have caused a little confusion, and after searching various forums I'm not much better informed.
I thought best to install as close to the existing position as I could. The old rods had three shims (washers) in and in order to get the toe link to sit approximately the same distance from the hub I needed all three supplied shims (ally washers of various thickness). I obviously don't want to mess with the bumpsteer, does this sound right to anyone who's done it before? Generally pleased with the results though.
