[guinnburger]

Just rebuilt the 400 in my '78 Trans Am, ('71 ram air engine with 400 tranny).
For some ding dang reason I can't do the normal thing you do when you are working on your car and need to push it in the garage at night, turn the key on, put it in neutral and push. I've been rebuilding these things for a hundred years and never run in to this. I've checked the parking brake, loosened it just to be sure, went through all the shift points on the transmission to make sure I wasn't in a locked gear, none of the shocks have jumped out of the slot to bind the wheel. (It has rear drum brakes with good pads).

The only thing I can think of is that I haven't had any part of the car greased anywhere in a long looong time, and don't even know if one greases a wheel/brake assembly. What else could possibly be binding to make the car not roll?

The irony is that it's running better than ever, I can only imagine what it would do if something was not compromising it's ability to roll well.

By the way, I also noticed something I didn't know before. When the rear end is lifted on a jack and you turn a rear tire forward, both wheels go forward. But if you turn one backward, the other one turns the opposite direction (forward). I will never understand limited slip differential.

Joey