T56 Shifting Issue

[BulldawgMusclecars]

This tranmission is in my 97 Camaro SS, but I'm hoping someone here will have some ideas. For a little background, the car had a fairly new clutch and the slave was replaced within the last 20k miles. I was driving on the interstate, and it wouldn't downshift out of 6th...well, I eventually got it into 2nd, and got off the road. Before this, it shifted fine...no noise, no jumping out of gear, no hydraulic issues. I limped it how, took it apart, and didn't really see anything wrong. The hydraulics looked ok. Since I had it apart, and had a new McLeod disk and pressure plate, I put them in. No change. Someone on another forum suggested that a pin may have come loose inside the transmission (it had happened to the guy replying), but that doesn'tmake sense to me since I can shift into any gear, as long as the engine isn't running. Any ideas? I have a T56 rebuild manual and will tear into this thing if I have to, but I'm thinking maybe it is the hydraulics...even though they aren't leaking, and the fluid level is adequate. Could it by bypassing internally and not building pressure?

[HILROD]

If the clutch is releasing all the way, it sounds like the skip shift has went crazy. Does a '97 even have skip shift? I've driven a 2000, and an '01 SS and they would lock out when upshifting. You can power through it, if you use enough force. You migh have more luck on LS1TECH.com

[derekf]

I don't think the skip shift can lock out any gear other than second.

When you tried to shift it out of sixth, what happened -- would the stick not move, or was it like a spoon in a vat of pudding, or did it move normally but nothing changed?

What about now? Does it seem like just one direction (up/down or left/right) has an effect, or is it just hard to move, or is there a lot of slop in the stick?

If the stick felt and still feels fine, I'd think that yeah, the clutch isn't disengaging completely. I'd bet in that case you could match revs and still shift.