You can drive a truck thru that space. Don't see any problem. Seems like a "simple" from-to linkage design. If I'm looking at your actual situation. Be sure to tell us someday if it's an automatic or stick shift. Looks like automatic which is the easiest of the two by far.

Steering? Is this a picture of your truck? Is the steering shaft just hanging there? Is that your motor and is it already mounted?

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