tranny prblms - HELP

[farrenator@yahoo.com (Victor Farren)]

This is for an 8v JH with a 4k trans:
I bought this car used and the previous owner replaced
the trans and presumably the clutch.

I go to the gym tonight and the clutch pedal feels
very tight.   Think nothing of it, and on the way
back, punch it up to 6k rpms on a straight away. 
After this, I gas the car and it feels like it does
when the clutch is slipping - give it gas and it
barely moves.  I haven't had any clutch problems so I
discount that the clutch is toast.  I pull over to
check if the clutch cable has bound and it hasn't. 
hmmm, drive the car a little bit with same symptoms. 
Pull over and loosen the manually adjustable clutch
cable.  Car now drives normally with plenty of power. 
Yeah!  Shit, I start hearing strange grinding noise
when the clutch is pressed in.  I drive home and jack
up car.  Notice that noise only happens when the
clutch is pressed in.  After a bit the noise continues
happening even when clutch is not engaged.  I poke
around and notice that the noise is coming from the
timing hole in the trans bellhousing.  I put a light
to it and see little falkes of metal being spit out. 
Shit.  Seems as if something is rubbing against the
bellhousing.  I don't know if it is the flywheel or
the pressure plate.

i will pull the trans tomorrow to see what happened. 
i hope I broke either the pressure plate bolts or the
flywheel bolts and something is moving around.  The
only other thing I can think of is that the crank
bearing is toast and the whole damn assembly is moving
around. I pray not.

Any ideas from the 'been there done that' crowd?

please email off list since I am on digest mode.

farrenator@yahoo.com

thanks,

Victor

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