Welcome philelite
You can use the SEARCH option and find alot of needed info and answers to alot of your questions. I had put a 3 inch body lift in my 95 Sport and it was fairly easy. It was time consuming. My Sport had the 5-speed manual so I had to modify/lengthen the stick shift.
There is info here also about building you own bumper brackets to raise your bumpers up to fill the gap after the body lift.