I grabbed some quick pics from a setup I have out in the garage. This might help ya Tommy, as it is a new (2002 vintage) China made shifter.
The kit does need a little bit of tweeking. I start by omitting the plastic/nylon bushings and using a steel bushing kit. These kits are not hard to find.
The next tweek I use is to back the spring clip with a thin stainless steel washer. Seems to eliminate any slop in the linkage at this point.
It's important to make sure the spring clips are sent all of the way home and locked. Both locked and unlocked spring clips are in some of these pictures.
When fine-tuning these shifters, I don't always rely on the alignment hole, as seen in this pic below. For reference, the shifter has reverse engaged, but the alignment holes are not perfectly clear. You will notice that the outside edges of the shift-mechanism levers are lined up much better to the shifter body than the alignment hole indicates.
Now about the shifter moving the rear of the trans up...
BBBenny is twistin with steel mounts, the shifter spacing will not be recognized in action. They had to go to this newer style because we've all been stripping out the aluminum threads in the tail shafts from banging gears all these years!