How to Make Your Truck Roll Backwards in Drive (Video)

So you’re living life and then one day, reverse gear stops working in your truck. But you’re out in the boonies and all you’ve got is whatever’s available at your camp.

Well, you might just find enough odd parts to create something like this nifty “hack” that allows the driver to move a vehicle backwards under its own power, even though the driving wheel is rolling forward…

This next video contains some bad music, but you don’t need sound for it. It shows how this handy-dandy thing was made.

Pretty cool.

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.