I know this is probably not a tool, but I thought someone might know what it is.  It is 113/4" long.
Thanks,
Barb

SOME KIND OF ADJUSTABLE CONNECTING ROD ON MACHINERY ?
bob w.   

Agree with Bob , Rod or linkage , usually hooks to a pedal or lever. Not a tool , but
possibly part of a machine Tool.

Possibly a shift linkage rod on a car or truck.

Possibly for a lawn tractor with a snow blade?

I was thinking a carb linkage rod for a tractor. Looks real close to the one on a Fordson with a Perkins diesel.

It looks like the shift link rods that came with a B+M 3 speed floor shifter kit I once installed in a Pacer.

I think this is a hopeless cause and has to head to the scrap pile.  Whether it's for a car or tractor, I would have to know which  make and model.  Since it has no number on it, probably can't do.
Thanks for all the replies,
Barb

Someone would buy this on Ebay.

Really?? Would I just list it as a linkage rod and explain that I don't know what it was off of?
Barb

Yes,

Somewhere some poor slob is searching the planet for a linkage rod for his 1932 Edsel Lawnmower Snowplow blade lifter, and he knows exactly what it looks like....Just take a good picture...

LOL!! Ok, I'll try it!
Thanks so much,
Barb

That is transfer case linkage rod and I am 75% sure it is to a Jeep Wrangler but couldn't say what year.

My Dad had a Wrangler once and had to do some work on it cause it was stuck in a single gear and he took something that looked like that out and put another in that looked like that, from a white 5 gallon bucket of parts that came with it and did some other stuff to it to get it working again. He kept complaining about the linkage rod not fitting in the trunion or something like that. and later was really ticked cause he had to go to pick a part and pull a whole transfer case assembly, if I remember right.

His was mid-late 80's model I think? That thing looks exactly like the one he took off. Found out later they get stuck in a single gear sometimes as one of their design failings. and it's that rod that is the bad part. That it isn't designed right or something and you goto get one with a much better design off some other vehicle that isn't even made by Jeep but just happens to fit.

I have to think that if I am right and that is one of those often defective undesirable parts people eventually have to rip out in favor of a part the company should have gone with in the first place...probably won't have a high degree of saleability.

As a long time jeeper I can say with about 99% certainty that is NOT a jeep transfer case part. I will say the 87-91 wrangler is what I know least about. Transfer cases never used a linkage like that. The early YJ (wrangler) had a Peugeot transmission and while highly unlikely, it may have had an external shift linkage. All prior jeeps (CJ) and later jeeps (YJ, TJ, JK) all have a top loader trans.