2nd gear worn?, ...or is clutch on its way out Options

[troth]

Under hard acceleration, trying to beat traffic or pulling onto the highway, I get to about 3.5k rpm and then it feels almost like the car popped into neutral for a split second. The revs shoot up to red line and no power is going to the wheels. To the best of my memory this has only happened in 2nd gear. All my shift bushings are newish and I’ve had no other shifting problems beside this. No detectable clutch smell.

I’ve had this happen maybe 3 or 4 times over the past few hundred miles.

Could this be the clutch slipping and on its way out or is second gear getting worn? Last time I replaced the tranny fluid there was a good amount of metal shavings, but nothing too concerning. There’s plenty of slack in the clutch cable.

[Mark Henry]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) It's the clutch.

The gears can't slip, under normal conditions you can't strip the gears, grinding, crunching, etc., sounds like that it's the dog teeth and brake bands, not the gears. Other things can also go wrong with the tranny, but it won't slip.