Lower Shift Linkage Rod for 727

For what year car or what year are your other linkage pieces? That rod in the pic is for a 68 and back B-or C-Body not an A-Body, many of those pics in the service manuals are for reference of the part only and are not correct many times by model application. There are differences in some years for that lower rod. You can usually use all the same linkage pieces on different years of A-Body but if you mismatch pieces many times they will not function correctly.