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Finished up the shifter linkage and rod today. I spent an hour at the scrap yard looking for a piece of thin wall tubing that the rod would fit into snug. I only needed a 14" long piece but do you think I could find any? Nope.... That place has a lot of misceleanous scrap but not one piece the size I needed. I was bummed out. I went back home and drilled out a piece I had that the center hole was too small on. I should have just used it in the first place. I had to lengthen the shifter rod 10". Anyway, I got it done and it works great. I will have to make a new gear indicator because with the Allison 5 speed OD it goes outside the lense on the left side for PARK and outside the lense on the right side for LOW/1st gear. I will figure out something for that.

On the lower linkage I had to re-design the frame bracket to get it low enough. It had to sit down tight against the lower frame rail. The bracket on the left is the stock one and the one on the right is the modified one.

The last picture is the completed lower shift linkage from the transmission to the frame bracket. The TH350 selector arm and the cross bar fit without any modification. I put the spring and washers on the selector arm after I took the picture.

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