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Our other vehicles need love too

True Confession time: It’s not all vintage vehicle fun at the Three Lions Garage.  Our newer vehicles need care too.  While I’ll admit that I’ll rarely decide to sacrifice any of the few precious hours I can manage to dedicate to the garage each week on projects as routine as oil changes or tune ups […]

I pulled it’s wiring harness with some fava beans and a nice chianti…

Back from camp, back to school, and back to work! Right before I left for Kona I managed to pull the entire rear wiring harness (the only thing holding in the front wiring is the firewall). Packing, however, managed to rob me of a chance to blog about it. The fact that I didn’t take […]

Catching Up

No, we are not dead. And no, the Mustang has not disappeared. It has been VERY long since I’ve posted. I haven’t gotten too much done since my latest activity on this site, but we’ve made some  decent progress here at TLG. For the sake of catching up, I’m not going to go into painstakingly […]

Our 302: all dressed up and nowhere to go

Alright! Reporting from Snowbird, Utah right now, tired from a long day skiing. My English teacher once told me that writing is like a miniskirt: it should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting. I plan to make this entry short and concise. Now that the valve train […]

Loss of Yardage

Knowing Dad was going to be gone this weekend, I made sure to get my homework done early on Tuesday and Wednesday so Dad and I could get as much work done at the garage as possible. We left the block, now with its newly balanced crankshaft in place, under a garbage bag to protect […]

Let the fun begin!

Finally! My homework is finished, I’ve gotten some sleep, and Dad isn’t busy. We all know this means I get to spend more time with my rapidly growing addiction to auto-restoration. My dad’s been nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs because our engine is going to start oxidizing if […]

Rat Season

Friday night, Dad and I finally got a chance to visit the garage after a three week break. Luckily, everything was where we left it. Our first task was to check the rat traps we set last time. Although we love working in our grungy, commercial-style shop, it can have its draw backs. When Rob […]