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Have a 110 Deluxe woody wagon with a 6 cyclinder and the transmission for what ever reason, suddenly will not allow the vehicle to go in reverse. Goes into reverse gear but letting the clutch out, it tries but won't move.
In neutral, the car will not go backwards unless the driveshaft is removed. The shaft will not rotate in the reverse direction when removed from the rear end.
In reverse gear, the car feels as though the wheels are chocked however, in a forward gear, everything works just fine.
Something is preventing it from going backwards while forward is no problem.

Any thoughts?

No ideas if you have a trans only but if you have an overdrive, that is a symptom of the reverse gear lockup problem in the R9's.

Details of what causes the issue are in service counselor Vol21 #15 of Aug 15, 1947 available in the literature section. While the article says Clippers, it is applicable to all R9s.

It does have the overdrive. This is great info.
Thank you very much.