So helped a friend with his Tacoma replacing CV shaft boots. Well we had to make a parts store run to Farmville. Before I even get to spaight seed farm road on the old Farmville highway some Richard head is going 48mph. So I push in the clutch go to drop it into 3rd........ 3rd?????? 3rd!!!! Eric is looking at me like why you touching my leg with the shifter. Luckily it goes back into 4th I just get quiet and keep rolling on the down the road thinking this just turned into an adventure.
Well get to Main Street luckily no cars behind us and I didn’t have to fully stop so feathering the clutch I get us around the corner and that 5.3 has the torque to bring the k5 up from 10mph in 4th gear on 39.5 tires, that weigh around 120lbs each. Gotta love those 5.38 gears. Anyway 3rd and reverse are currently missing and unaccounted for. 1st and 2nd are still there, Eric had to push the k5 backwards as I steered so we could get out of the Napa parking lot in Farmville.
Hopefully I can do the billavista sm465 fix before having to drill the spot welds out holding the trans tunnel cover and pulling the top plate. That 3rd gear shift typically takes a beating so I’m not really surprised.
