My thoughts and experience on this subject:
I have in the past had the bike shifter, and the PTO adjustment knob, run thru my firewall to the TPI. The problem I had with this was the adjustment of the cable to allow enought travel to get the Idle to where it needs to be, and the FLEX between the motor and the body of the truck.
Let me tell you, this never happend and I'm not an idiot. When the blazer really flexed, remember first gen, and the lever was not even in use, it would engage the trottle lever on the TPI and this was UGLY on a slow going rock crawling trail... Just when you don't expect it, the idle surges up because the flex between the truck and the motor was huge. You end up using a pull chain between the cable and the TPI or carb. This was the challenge, as the amount of pull chain needs ended up binding up between the other cables, kickdown and throttle. For my setup it just did not work... I tried all ways from sunday and still could not get the adjustment to work out correctly.
Then I tried the ECM use with the fans/AC pinout on the ECM. It just as not enought to run up the throttle thru the ECM. Not enough to get the idle to a sufficent RPM to run the OBA.
I ended up going with the Offroadengineering setup, it works thru the Idle Air Control Motor. It's all elec, and is very easy to use, but it's not the total solution at least on MY TPI. They say it works great on TBI's but the use was sketchy on my TPI. Always works, but the max I can get the idle up to for OBA is around 1300 RPM. Just on the cusp on running the OBA.
It works great for just a little more throttle on the steep climbs, and even better for lowering the idle on downhill decents, but for OBA is on the cusp.
I still like it but it's a little short of my expeciation. BYW, it's not cheap, and it wears out the Idle Air Control Motors much faster than normal.
Just my opion.
Here is the link to the company I got it from:
http://www.offroadengineering.com/200_series.htm