gear selection problem

question for anyone who could advise!? am restoring a handful of an FMD and she is gonna need a clutch. before i start i have this query! i engaged the hi/lo gear and 1st, she moved under her own steam for the first time in at least 10 years, great! i selected reverse and she wouldn't and the clutch was slipping, i put this down to a brake problem as they were badly seized and i have yet to address that problem, however when the gear lever was in neatral but the range lever still engaged she still drives forward,(the gear lever does feel like its selecting gears and not just worn/broken, and with the range gear in neatral she stays put.) Any thoughts?
 
Does it feel at all like it is trying to back up? Does the tractor roll backward on a grade? Or act like something is binding? Maybe jack up a wheel and then try to see if it is binding by turning it by hand, and then try the opposit wheel. Maybe a brake on one side has a broken spring and the shoe is binding? Dandy Dave!
 
When I got my FMD operating, I found that the reverse gear and shaft were quite rusted. They are the highest in the transmission and the most likely to not be surrounded with oil during storage. Taking the plate off where the trans oil fill and pto engagement lever is will show a lot of details. You might be able to see in the oil fill hole with a pen light to see the reverse gear.
 
thanks will try these suggestions, thinking about it she will push backwards, (with big effort) so maybe not the brakes and it is a gearbox issue-doubt gaffer tape gonna fix this one, eh dave!?
 
It is possible the gear selector is worn. I had this happen on my 64. The the ball on the end that slides the rails gets worn down enough to slip past the gate without actually taking it out of the foward gear. so when you put it in reverse it is still in a foward gear and is going to bind up. "IF" that is the case just take the gear stick out and re-align the rails with a screw driver or some such, and build up some weld up the end of the gear stick to bring it back to size.
 

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