it has to be something like that…the ONLY answer i have gotten so far is that …I probably dont have any dowel pins in between my block and tranny…i will take it apart next week after lvd but im almost positive i have them there because i just switched fom 6 speed trans to this 5 speed…i will deff. keep everyone updated and i will take pics today or tomorrow of what happened to my last set of discs…almost unbelieveable