ChopperGreg

Thanks. I want to thank everyone with suggestions...its out of my hands now as the truck to take it to the shop, to fix the head gasket issue has picked it up.

I'm not the mechanic my buddy is. According to the diagram in the link above, I saw items shaped like numbers 12-14 in my buddy's hand.

My buddy took the brake shoes off - at least that is what I saw in his hand. The hammer was a typical hard rubber hammer and prior to using the bar on the studs, we put the nuts back on to protect the threads. With the brake shoes off, wouldn't the rotor be free to move, if they were the problem?

We started by chocking all front tires and lifting the driver's rear tire off the ground, and trying to rotate it. It moved. We then switched to the rear passenger tire, as soon as we got the weight of the rear passenger tire off the ground, the entire car shifted to the rear slightly as the front tire chocks took up the weight of the car. We took off the tire and removed the brake shoes, so nothing was touching the rotor, and tried to move the wheel and we could not get it to move - even running a bar between a couple of the studs resulted in no movement, manually or with a dead blow hammer applied to the bar ( we put the nuts back on the studs to protect them ). All other tires moved - the rear driver's tire when it was lifted clear of the ground and rotated manually, and both front tires as they settled back into the chocks when the rear passenger tire was lifted off of the driveway.

Ok, we pulled the tire from the affected wheel, and even went as far as totally removing the calipers from the disk, and still no movement (even with the clutch in) so it's not the brakes that are frozen.

I have a buddy that I'm trading labor for assistance in this area, given that he is more mechanically inclined. Tomorrow morning I help him shovel manure for his garden, in the afternoon he is helping me with the car ( jacking up a car on an incline is not exactly my favorite thing to do - even beyond mechanical issues ).

Ok, so about 6-8 months ago the head gasket went on my 2003 Outback, so I parked it in the driveway (slight up incline), while I put together the funds to take it to the mechanic. I now have the funds, and finding that it had a dead battery, I changed the battery, but now for what ever reason my Outback will not move. Gears in neutral, brake off and no movement. Start engine, put the car in gear (5 spd manual), start letting off the clutch a little ( just until the engine is starting to strain a little ) and it still doesn't want to move (forward or backward). Can anyone assist?