Not sure I understand or maybe I didn't explain what it's doing correctly. I have no idea if it's the correct rod or not since it came to me this way but I can say that it looks like all the other rods I've seen on any other stock automatic T/A or AAR and also what I've seen in the service manuals.

Everything seems to be adjusted correctly even though some angles may look a little steep.

When someone floors the gas the carburetor goes WOT AND the rod is pushed back as far as it can go and it completely pushes in the kickdown valve to where IF the transmission could kickdown it would, but it won't. To me that means the issue is not the rod it has to do with the transmission itself.

What's the next step?