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please help! highway driving and my 97 keeps popping oit of 5th

Old 04-05-2015, 10:32 PM
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Just took the truck through a trip through the mountains, and she's popping out of 5th. Doesn't matter if I apply load to it or not, she will only stay in 5th for 30-60 seconds before just popping out. Is it a shift fork? Synchro? Something else? Mechanically inclined when it comes to the doing, just not the diagnosing. I have looked for videos on this and can't find anything that really helps. Sorry if this is a duplicate thread, same thing as I couldn't find anything! Thanks in advance.
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Is this in or out of over drive? Sometimes my truck will act up at higher speeds with over drive off, but I also have a bad trans.
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Must be a manaul and the shift fork detent are warn. No quick easy fix.
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It is a manual trans yes. Shifting is smooth going 1-4, and 5th will pop out.


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