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I was gifted a 90's ford pickup from a family member and plan to get caught up on maintenance and keep it forever. It runs fine and has been a good project. No telemetry and easy to work on.

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Try replacing the power steering pump or the thermostat...

Probably easier than any new car, but dang they made some odd design choices when they laid out that engine. Or try pulling the oil filter from a 302 with 4WD.

I gotta take the intake manifold off to replace my thermostat :(

Half of it. And the easy half not the hard half.

What do you mean half of it? I have a straight six, the intake manifold is one big (plastic) piece. The exhaust manifold is in two parts, though.

There are some other fun ones, too. I had an F150 in 2014 with the ecoboost 3.5, and the oil filter was directly above the control arm. So they put in a deflector over that to keep it from just running onto the arm itself. Still really messy and inconvenient.

Traded that truck for a Lightning, now I haven't really thought about the inconvenient design decisions around oil filters in a while.

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