20 While this ’65 already used a Lokar AOD TV cable kit to control the transmission, it was installed with the cable shifter in a forward pull/upright lever configuration.

As installed in late-model Fox-body Mustangs, the AOD's shift and throttle valve (TV) control levers look like this. The lever that's pointed down at 6 o'clock is the manual shift control.

Erratic Ford AOD shifts in a retrofit application may be due to bad TV cable and linkage geometry, both at the carb and at the trans. Here’s how to fix it.