I recently put this professionally rebuilt 454 in the boat, (Bravo 1). Replaced lower carrier, rear bearing, seals. We take it out to the river to do some final tesing, life is good. Couple of trips later, the stepkid says it's spraying sea water in the engine compartment. Water is leaking out of the weep hole, so I replace the circulating pump. While I'm at it, I take out the distributor to replace the gasket, because oil is pooling on the intake, and I'm thinkin' maybe that gasket is bad. Almost dropped the distributor putting it back in, and when I grabbed it back, rolled the shaft, lost timing. Reset the timing, went to the river to test it, and the durn thang started sticking in forward near idle. Would not go into neutral. I took the lower cable off, put it in neutral, he put the stick in neutral, I reinstalled it. It would work a couple of times, then stick again. It seems to me that it has to be a problem with boat end of the linkage, as the outdrive shifts very smoothly by the lower cable only. I add all this peripheral stuff in here, because I apparently don't know what info is relevant, having got blowback for leaving stuff out. Any ideas?
