Re: stuck in gear; brakes locked up, too?

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2018/2/2 10:25:46

Since clutch appears to work for forwards and with clutch depressed still won't reverse, than as your mechanic says, it's further down the drive line, probably trans. He's probably already diagnosed properly.
If not to your satisfaction, then need to further isolate problem. Something is likely broken in the driveline, that won't let it turn backward. As O_D says, you jack up rear and check brakes*, etc. Then disconnect the drive shaft and rule out if it's in the differential or in trans.
Any telltales? does it make grinding or other noise?

I doubt it's just the linkage, per se, even if that's messed up, it should roll backward with the clutch depressed regardless of what gear it's in, unless something peculiar to this year, like a reverse lock out system? I'm not familiar with this particular model. Generally, you only find those on shift mechanisms where it just won't allow shifter to go into reverse gear, but it still should roll back with clutch depressed. If clutch was frozen and not disengaging as O_D mentioned, you'd have problems switching gears, aka power shifting, and jumping when starter engaged.
* - Remotely, I could see a worn or frozen brake or ebrake, that only fully engages in the reverse direction, but that's doubtful. But there'd be a wheel noise or brake heat up going forward. Easy to check that by pulling rear wheels as indicated and testing the ebrake operation.