well, I went drag racing on saturday and blew out my tranny.

Here's the deal. With the motor off I can shift gears fine.

when the motor is running Its hard to shift into gears. When I try to get into 1st gear, I'd have to yank it into 2nd before it'll slide into 1st.

Occasionally, I wont be able to get into third.

I took a WOT run to see if I had oil leaking from my headgasket, but when I got home and checked the motor, I noticed that oil was starting to seep out through
the crevices between the tranny and block. i.e. if you look at the B18C1 stamp on the block, you will literally see oil coming out between the passages.

Another symtom is that when I start the car up, it'll idle at 1400-1800 RPM's and the car would have a slight shake, as if my valves were bent, but when the car idles at 1000 RPM or less it runs smooth, there is no shaking at all..

I also notice clutch chatter when I shift gears and start out driving.
The clutch I'm running is the ACT A14HDSS clutch with the full face sprung disc with the heavy duty pressure plate.

Dan from Godspeed suggested that my syncros are worn,
Greg suggests that my Throwout bearing is busted
and I read somewhere that I may have popped a spring out of the disc?

What could it be based on these symtoms?

 

 

is there any vibration when u drive the car? are there any unusual sounds? btw, there is no oil between your block and tranny, thats where the clutch is at. is your passenger side axle wobbling when you jack up there car? lemme know.

 

My guess would be the clutch springs are popped out of place. I know a lot of people have clutch spring problems with their ACT's... The shaking could be the clutch pad is making contact with the flywheel.

For synchro problems, at first, your gears will grind when you shift into the gear. Then the grinding gets worst and worst till at the end, you won't be able to get into the gear at all.

Or maybe your shifter fork is bent, but I don't think this is the case here though...

 

Between 1000-2000 RPM's there is vibration like I got a bent valve or clutch chatter, above that its fine....below that its fine too. I'd have to jack the car up to see if there is any vibration there...

 

LOL.....that would be insane if it were the case.