Basically I went to put it into reverse, but you have to throw both the hand clutch and push the foot clutch all the way down to shift (don't ask me why; I have no idea - but it works)... But as sometimes happens, the gear starts to knock because it's not slowed down to shift yet, so I let the stick go. But it locked into gear, and as I moved the stick around it now has a complete range of motion and won't catch any gears at all... Nevermind the fact that it is in reverse.I see I'm not alone in this problem, but perhaps I'm alone in that I'm just 18 and only driven my tractor for about 100 hours. And all I've worked on myself is the alternator 12 volt conversion, oil filter and oil and all that stuff, and places to grease... And moving the draw bar. But other than that, I have no experience on how to fix the shifter. I hear people say you can take the stick out and take it out of gear, and put the stick back... But I don't know how. I know if you take all the bolts out and remove the shifter; then that creates a bigger problem because that's the gears themselves - not the shifter. This isn't the first time this has happened to me (2nd, actually), but the last time I was about 14 and got my mechanic cousin to fix it for me [he told me it was like a 5 or 10 minute fix]. But I'm on my own, and it's out in the field, and I was wondering if I could get some detailed instructions on what can be done. And if there's an quick fix I can do so maybe it doesn't happen again? Like, is there a pin that comes out to remove the shifter, or do those two metal rings get pried out or what? It's a crooked shifter (well it was, but when my cousin fixed it the last time he chopped off the bend in it so it'd shift easier - because the "turning" dislodged it). But this time, I'm up the creek, because I don't know what tools I need or how exactly to do it... Help. Please! ~Will
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