kickdown rod dilemma - throttle not opening fully SOLVED !!!

Here's what I would do. First VERIFY 100% WHAT is stopping the throttle from getting full travel. Are you 100% right now that it is the kickdown lever at the transmission reaching its full travel first, or could it be "some of the other linkage" bottoming out somewhere else? And I mean 100% sure. Not 99.9%. Once you find THAT, you'll be on the way to a fix. I also agree 100% about getting the correct parts in there. Sometimes youc an get by with mixing parts up, but the throttle pressure linkage is not a good place to try it. Just too much at stake.