Well, I got a little bit of time in the garage yesterday. I finished getting the Lokar shifter installed.
As you'll recall, I needed to fabricate a secondary pivot point in order for the actual articulation to happen. With the Lokar installed in the factory shifter location, it was directly above the pivot point on the transmission pan, and wouldn't move it.
So, a little bit of left over angle iron, some 3/8" bar, and a couple of 1/2" nuts, I was able to come up with this:
Then I put the transmission hump back in place.
And finally, got under the truck to hook up all of the linkages.