i have a 1991 ford f150 xlt lariat reg cab with a inline six and a four speed manual transmission i have no reverse when i put it in reverse i loose all forward gears and it gets stuck in reverse wondering if anyone has ran into this problem or has a possible solution to my problem please help

 

Sounds like the clutch

 

the clutch is only a few thousand miles old

 

was there a grinding gears problem before this?

 

no before it went out it would sometimes stick in reverse this was the first day i bought this truck and i got home at about 11:30 and wanted to go to bed and the tranny got stuck in reverseand would not come out so i hit it in to nuetral cause the guy that sold me the truck said thats how he got it out but i think i hit it to hard because after that i had no gears and it seemed like it was stuck in the reverse position but i could push it back and forth freely

 

first step make sure all of your clutch linkage is tight and in place correctly, if so take off the inspection cover of the tranny and inspect your clutch, look for glazing, low friction material and check the gear oil in the tranny as well then get back to me

 

ok thank you

 

Check out the tranny oil. Really bad, nasty fluid can cause all sorts of problems, and hard shifting is the most common.

Look on the transmission forum, there's a sticky with tons of info. I know the 5spd took regular mercon ATF, but the older 4spd may still take gear oil.

Either way, swap the fluid if it's nasty and see if that helps. From what you said about the p/o saying you just had to "bang it out of reverse" tells me that there's been a problem for some time, and now something may have let go.

Bent(now broken?) reverse fork maybe? I'm not a whiz with transmissions though.

 

thanks to everyone who tried to help fixed reverse found out the reverse paw was off track/misaligned alil fixed it and now i have reverse