Three Lions Garage

Finally, underside work! Like rebuilding the engine, this is so much more interesting than normal trim and body work. Seeing the mechanical processes that operate an automobile is a privilege when compared to the usual drudgery of removing taillights or bumpers or quarter-windows. Also, I get a basic understanding of what makes the car tick. […]

Major milestone achieved tonight: Jack dropped the automatic tranny and will remove the rear end tomorrow.  Details to follow…

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 […]

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 […]

Oops. Sorry I haven’t posted much lately… between the play, finals, and what little is left over for my social life, there hasn’t been much time to work at the garage. Thank heavens it’s winter break now. Last weekend, we inserted the front oil seal into the timing chain cover. After warping the first two […]

Jack will not have much time to devote to his car for the next few weeks because of the combination of his studies and the time commitment required of him on the fall play at school.  It appears to his parents that he’s got too much on his plate and something had to give.  To […]

Late in the nineteenth century, a Connecticut inventor named W.N. Woodruff invented the Woodruff Key, a way to mate parts to rotating shafts.  Mr. Woodruff came up with the ingenious idea of inserting a semi-circular key into a keyway cut longitudinally into a shaft so that a portion of the key protrudes as a tab […]

On Wednesday, Dad and I stopped by the house of our good friend and gearhead Rob to pick up his click torque wrench before heading to the garage. Years ago, Rob rebuilt a ’65 289 that he dopped into his ’84 Mustang.  Rob decided to join us at TLG with his two kids. Now that […]

Jack and I visited Wade and Jim at Hubbard Machine in Hayward to drop off Jack’s small block 302 engine for machining and balancing.  Hubbard’s was recommended to us by my friend and fellow car club member, Ed Archer, a vintage auto collector and racer who has been a Hubbard’s customer since it was run […]