Help!! Lost reverse out of no where??

[black97spyder]

So I just bought a '90 awd talon and its been running and driving great.... until last night when I lost reverse completely. This is my first 5 speed DSM and first 1g that ive owned. I have 2 auto 2g's that ive been working on over the last 3 years.

The car has been slowly getting harder and harder to get into reverse over the last few days before I lost reverse completely. It acts like it engages all the way when I try to put it in reverse. When I go to release the clutch with the car in reverse, the car dies like the parking brake is on or is somehow stuck between 2 gears and doesn't even attempt to move backwards??

It has a short throw shifter with good shifter bushings (no excessive play from the bushings), has an ACT clutch with 4 puck disk and fidanza lightweight flywheel, and shifter cables seem to be in good shape (but the one that is closest to the drivers side has some side to side play in it).... it doesnt seem like the shifter cables or clutch because I can feel it go into gear (or seems like it).

i removed the inspection cover to see if one of the big nuts had came loose or backed off but it hadn't, both big nuts were tight and nothing had came apart visually from the inspection cover side.

Please help!! I am at a total loss here and have no clue where to look next

 

[black97spyder]

Kyle I only got a couple mins to even look at my car as I work night shifts and get up right before it gets dark and I ran out of time/daylight before I got to check out the reverse switch. I will just try loosening it 1/2 turn and see if it fixes the problem.

If that does not work I will try manually shifting the car Into reverse from under the hood... I will still try it But I do not think it is this as bad cables would make it not go into gear far enough, and it feels almost like it goes too far into gear because I have to slightly pull it out of gear to get reverse to engage and somewhat work.

also when I drained the fluid the day after the problem happened, no metal shavings came out or were in the fluid