I know what you mean, about fords being hard to work on. I work for a contractor, and I repair all the service trucks, 95% ford (65-70 f-150's, and E-250's). This morning I get handed the keys to a 2002 E-250 5.4L, they say it has an "exhaust leak, or something". I go fire it up, and it sounds like an old two cylinder John Deere. So turns out it blew a spark plug out, I'd heard of this happening to L's, but not n/a van (ford desided to use a deep thread spark plug, but only put a 1/2" of thread in the head). So I spent the rest of the day taking the head off so it can be heli coiled. I am getting better at it, it only took 6-7 hours to remove one head.

I could go on all day about my cruise of ford.

Good kill BTW