Phew... fast forward a few months and I finally came about to splitting the tranny from the 3.2!
First off, the reason why I opted on dropping the engine/tranny this winter is because my clutch pedal slammed to the floor on a regular cruise last summer. I was about to downshift from third to second gear and before depressing the clutch pedal it engaged on it's own really abruptly. At first I thought it might be the clutch cable or the pedal cluster, but inspection of these parts proved otherwise.
This is what I found:
This is a throw out bearing failure. Correct?
Before I start going through Pete Zimmermann's 915 wiki, what do you guys think happened and what needs replacing?
And damn...this thing needs some cleaning up!
Thanks again for all your help, pelicans!
Kev