Why in my Tacoma manual Transmission slip out kicks out of First and third gears when clutch is engaging?

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I'd like the same question answered! My sister has a 1997 Tacoma and she takes perfect care of her vehicles. Yet it jumps out of 5th gear. Now it jumps out of 3rd as well. - From Toyotanation.com (I like to share answers!):

My truck has 150K Miles on it with original clutch, recently it start to slip out of the fifth gear then the third gear as well. Did a Google search and found out it was a common problem with this truck. I did what this guy suggested and it worked like a charm. If any body is having the similar problem here is the answer.

You'll be happy to know that this is a cheap fix and you may be able to do

it yourself for about $20 and an hour of your time.

There's a rubber seating ring at the base of the shift lever that when it

wears causes the trans to pop out of gear. It may start out popping out

of just one gear but as the seat wears further it will start popping out

of more than one gear - but always gears where the lever has to point in

the same direction - for example, 1, 3 or 5 (shift lever towards the dash)

but not 2 and 4 (shift lever towards the seat.)

If you have the 2WD with the W59 transmission (look on the ID tag on the

drivers door frame) go down to your Toyota dealer and get part no

33505-35020, it'll cost you about ten bucks. While you're in there you

might want to splurge, spend another five bucks and get 33548-31010, a

white nylon cap that goes on the end of the shift lever. Other

transmissions suffer similar problems and can be fixed the same way, I

just don't have the part numbers for you.

It's been a while, but I believe you just pull up the rubber boot, pull up

a dust cap and twist a locking ring and lift the whole shift lever out. If

the dust cap is torn or a poor fit, replace that too (I don't know the

part number on that one). Clean everything up, put a little dab of white

grease on the new ring and reassemble and you'll be ready to go. If you

don't feel up to doing it yourself, take it to a dealer or buy the parts

and have an independent garage that you trust install them for you..