833 OD Lever questions

I put the trans in neutral and dropped any old levers on there that I had laying around, that ended up near-vertical , like in the pics shown by halfafish. I did need the one offset lever as he has on the 1-2, to make the shifter line up in plan-view.
I moved my shifter to the rear and up high and mounted it on a thick steel plate with the stick where I wanted it to be and at the angle I wanted it to be at; then shifted it left to right on the trans with appropriate spacers I made from tubing, so it lined up to the levers..
Then I cut off the ends of several rods I had laying around and used them to make new cut-to-length and heat-to-bend rods, from some heavy-wall steel-tubing I bought for the job.
At the lever-end, after the tubes were shaped, I just slid the cut ends into the tight-fitting tubes and welded them in.
At the stick-end, a tapped the tubes for the adjusting ends, making sure to leave some adjustment.
IIRC, I used thick seamless cold-rolled tubing, with the right I.D. to be tapped for the ends I had scrounged. It worked great!, I haven't missed a shift since 2004.
Oh yeah, fixing the tunnel was a chore, and the carpet didn't fit all that well; but the shift quality was vastly superior, so to me, it was all worth it.
I have used a ball on the stick, ever since the T-handle came loose on a particularly nasty 2-3 shift in high-school, back in 1971. I think a guy only needs to clobber the dash once, to never want it to ever happen again.