My parents’ 100 just experienced multiple alternator failures and I believe it was bad connections/corrosion causing the alternator to perceive a low state of charge and then cook itself.
It appears to be resolved after replacing the positive...
Anything is a PITA if old and corroded but that doesn’t matter the platform.
Nothing on the V8 is hard to get to. Like even the starter, yeah it’s buried, but you just peel some layers off and then it comes out. They really thought through the...
I’d hazard to guess that things wear at the same rate on both 80s and 100s, and both have a small handful of gotchas, but the 100 is far FAR easier to work on in my experience.
Even the starter under the intake manifold isn’t that hard. It’s...