Update: Have Been dis-assembling and inspecting today. Try not to laugh...attention: Maybe this won't burn someone else. But I found at least one issue that could have been why the gears were spinning in the transmission. When I looked at the fork I found shinny wear spots that say the pivot ball had snapped out of the detent on the fork. This would move the fork closer to the throwout bearing and would bind up some.... So the clutch may not have been fully disengauged. I remember knowing that had to be snapped in the detent and did so.... but during installation of the transmission I must have pushed it back in out of place. Hindsite yesterday all I would have had to do is pulled it into place. This might have solved the issue with getting into 1st and rev..... but I think the pressure plate still may be the issue on the slipping. Does anyone know if the nova's had the recessed flywheel... where the disk surface is lower than the pressure plate mounting area?? I will post on ther other sites. I posted a pic of the fork on my site :
http://community.webshots.com/album/86356492fGDxkm Let you know how it works next week.
Thanks, Clyde
