Well the verdict is a lug broke off of the case. The reason it was slipping was a piece of it got down in the valve body and plugged up the 2nd piston so I burned up the clutches. Damn the luck, had to find a doner case.
This had to have been a casting defect or something. Nobody I talked too heard of the case busting like that, not even the guys at Hughes...
Should be roasting tires again lat Mon.

 

Damn .... that sucks. Just goes to show though .. the 80e is still the trooper it's made out ot be.

Hopefully that is a one in a million problems.