My old upper gears ate it. Ordered a replacement and slapped it on a spare but good lower unit I had laying around ( I didn't want to reuse the old one for fear of metal shavings hidden in it somewhere). Any how the entire outdrive is reassembled perfectly, forward is forward, neutral is neutral rev is rev. The only problem I have is when I mount it to the gimbal housing the shift connection from the housing is just barely touching the top of the upper gear case shifter. And I mean just barely touching, its not sitting inside the gimbal shifter it's sitting just below it and that's with the shift lever on the gear case hiked all the way up. they barely touch but not enough to actually shift the gear case. After pulling it apart the upper is in ship shape, cotter pin and washer are as they should be. I compared the old and new shifter connectors from the old and new upper and they're identical. I'd prefer to get this done right and not rednekin it with jb weld and a quarter inch thick inch long piece of stainless. I examined the gimble shift rod and it's up to spec. I just dunno whiskey tango foxtrot changed. Any thoughts are appreciated.
