are so dang hard to work on?!?!? im a mechanic and ill be gosh darned if i curse ford up and down..then i realize..im a ford man at heart and i will always be..ford and ford products are the most brought in make of vehicle everyday..and ill be darned if i just dont understand why ford seems to strive to make things the hardest!!! well not the hardest those volvos and most imports have that title..but man..fords are toughies..still love em tho

 

because all ford cares about is how easy they are to put together at the plant. they dont give a crap about us mechanics in all seriousness ford has always been ahead in the technology department. its a good thing and bad...

 

yea man! mechanic power haha! but yea man they can last a long freakin time and theyve got their stuff together..but oh my goodness when they need work...its a pita but i still work on em cuz thats what i do for a living..hopefully not after i get outta college tho..kinda gets old after a while lol but i will always work on vehicles of all kinds..cuz i love em

 

i know how you guys feel. i just installed some headers on my 07 today and that was a major PITA when it came to the passenger side

 

They're easy to me. Now, you wanna talk about some screwed up, *** backwards engineering, don't get me started on General Motors.

 

see i find gm easier to service than ford..oh well nothins to hard on me haha i kidd but yea man theres nothin worse than those sidewards v6 import motors...my goodness

 

luckythirteen13: don't know if you knew beforehand, but the secret on the passenger's side is to feed the header up from the bottom.

imho, import ricer sh*t is the most *** backwards engineering EVER!

 

ohh yea man MOST backwards nonsense ive ever messed with i dont see how the japs work on these things!!!

 

it wasn't getting the headers in and out that was hard, it was getting to the studs. i have decent sized hands and i weigh 240lbs so trying to get myself into the necessary positions that was the hard part. but ya your right, the headers hat to be installed from below. my truck is lifted tho so there was no need for a jack

 

I hear ya bro! I'll take a Ford any day over the other crap they throw at me!

 

what do the Japs care? They don't work on 'em either. They just go buy another one after a year or two. What the heck--they're made of $$$$. If it ain't built in Japan, it's built in China.

 

ohh man i got so mad today...a freakin VW jetta came in today...ohh man i need to start a "hardest vehicles to work on" wall...volkswagens, buick regals (oh lord) volvos, audis, man just about every import that comes in..i can barely stand it lol but yea oh man the buick regals are tricky little guys

 

My dad's '01 5.3L Silverado is a lot easier to work on then my 5.4L (I haven't really done any work on the 5.4L though). He's got a lot more room under the hood...

 

yea ford crams everything under that hood! and man i worked on a 8.1 chevy today...ohhh god talk about crammed in there...unbelieveable

 

I think its just cause they get it right, so they wanna make it so noone f**ks with it and causes problems, like the Chevy people that gotta modifty every inch of it.

My old '05 Silverado 2500HD 6.0L had alot of room under the hood, 364ci gas Vortec even, they dont throw alot of bulk under the hood on the GMs which is kinda cool. Atleast I could see the spark plugs there.

Ah man the 8.1 Vortec 496ci with the allison trans, sure is a sweet pkg but I would never wanna have one of them 7mpg trucks.