Usually I take my car to my uncle for repairs I don't feel comfortable doing myself. He used to be a Nissan dealership mechanic but now just does jobs on the side as a "shade-tree mechanic", and lets me hover around and ask questions so that I can learn. Quite honestly the part that took the longest was removing the ABS sensor without damaging it. The 10mm bolt holding the sensor in place came out fairly easy with some PB Blaster, but the sensor itself didn't want to budge, so we had to work on it for a while with some small picks, screwdrivers, and ATF.
He's got all the right tools for the job so the rest of the process was pretty straightforward. Didn't need to use a torch or anything despite the rust. There was an intermittent squeal/scraping noise when I drove it home, but after talking with him on the phone it just turned out to be the brake shield the needed to be bent back a little bit.
I've had wheel bearings last 300k kms or 10+ years with no issues on other cars. My wife's Civic is 18 years old now and its still on the original wheel bearings. The difference in this case, though, was the sheer number of really bad potholes we've had to deal with in the city over the last few years. Despite being as vigilant as I could, I still hit a few potholes (mostly on the passenger side), a couple of them were hard enough to cause minor bends in the rims. Then I hit one that caused significant bends and the wheel vibration, so I guess the bearings finally gave up. Of course, it doesn't help that I also have wide wheels with a more aggressive fitment and lowering springs. It is what it is.
) but I was able to get the new Kirkland battery out before it was gone for good... It sat on my concrete garage floor for nearly three years before I decided to hook it up to my 04' Eclipse GTS, now that I fixed the clutch and a handful of other issues. 
