If you're doing an AOD, be sure to grab the throttle valve cable and all of the fittings from both ends of it. Also grab the shift arm. Two Heim joints and a rod pretty much will do it.

 

I have the TV cable, shift arm, shift cable and fittings from the tranny. I don't know how to use the Heim joints and rod is my problem. What I mean is I don't know where any of this connects or how. With a drawing or a pic I can figure it out but without them I'm completely lost until I can find time to go to the wreckers and crawl around and try to figure it out that way.

 

the lever on the column for shifting goes forward to park, and back to 1st.

the lever on the AOD does the same, if the arm faces down..
if the arm faces up, it was meant to cable shift from a center console (mustang).. I had to reverse the arm for the mustang I was installing it in. (came from a lincoln column shift car).

the the amount of column arm travel, and tranny arm travel need to match.. this is determined by the length of the arms.. and swing positions. (If u have an aftermarket column, you can adjust this a little)

the rod (test with some allthread rod from lowes/homedepot) usually goes in a straight line between the two levers.. but sometimes there is interference from under floor obstacles.. brake pedal arm and linkage, sometimes booster..

heim joints are really just swivel ends of the fixed rod to the arms.

on my red 56, with column shift and floor brakes, there was interference.. so I went with the 1804 lokar column shift cable to trans. I have the GM trans, but the shifter doesn't care..
as long as the shift arm is forward for park, and back for 1st, you should be able to make it work.. you may have to fiddle with the bracket at the trans which is slide adjust front/back on the pan mount bolts. the cable screw end also provides for adjustment (at both ends).

the kickdown needs to PULL its lever counterclockwise to increase the trans line pressure as the rpm goes up. On the C6, there is an aftermarket/lokar cable that attaches to the carb linkage, that pulls.. I use one on my 460/c6 combo. cables didn't exist in the 60's when this was designed, and a hard rod was used.. course it matched specific carbs to specific trans shift arms, with no interference issues

Sam