Dino Diaries - Feb 22, 2025: Go for the Gold!

[Jason Edge]

While scooting around under my 64 CDV Dino I am seeing a lot of thinks to address, including swapping in a lot of my gold cadmium plated hardware. Since I am headed to the cad platers in Winston-Salem, NC on Monday, I wanted to get my transmission shift linkage and relay bracket removed and disassembled to included in the next drop-off batch and replace with one I had plated.  

While under the car I noticed one of my bolts on the relay bracket was missing. Luckily it was just missing and not broken off. As I removed it I noticed the brake line above it and the 3 brake line clamps on that inside part  of the frame. I removed the trans relay and linkage rods, and those 3 clamps and will clean up and paint that part of the frame before I install the new hardware. 

See pictures below:

ABOVE: Note missing bolt on trans relay bracket.
Also note that brake line bracket right above to the right. Relay,
and 3 brake line brackets have been removed.

ABOVE: At top is the transmission relay bracket and shift linkage removed and the one at bottom is the one going in.  Before disassembling the one I removed, I used it as a guide to adjust the length of the short and long linkage rods. I used a caliper to hopefully get it adjusted to the same length so hopefully it will be a matter of just bolting it in.  The removed relay and rods was completely disassembled so everything gets evenly plated. 

[Logan Robb]

The more items you add that are CAD plated, the more I want to see a WHOLE 64 Cadillac that is CAD plated! Wouldnt that be cool!

[Jason Edge]

Yep, with it up on the 12" wheel cribs I will be scooting around for a few weeks adding some cad stuff I have been throwing in the trunk.