No gear oil in transmission related to 1st gear popping out?

[Deadly BlaZe]

Recently my 1st gear started popping out upon accelerating from a stop. It only happens once or twice in a day but enough to get me worried. So I decided to do the thing vfaq recommended about fixing shifter movement. I drove 30 minutes on the freeway to get to my friend's shop.

Anyways, so I lift the car up and proceed to remove the tranny drain bolt. To my amazement and shock...only a few drops of oil came out. There was literally almost no oil in there. I proceeded to remove the tranny cover off, and it seems that the nut vfaq refers to was not loose at all.

So now I have two questions:

1. How on earth did the transmission not completely destroy itself on my way there??
2. Would the lack of gear oil cause 1st gear to pop out? I can't judge right now if filling up the transmission with oil fixed anything because it pops out kinda rarely and randomly.

And for the record, for anyone who is curious, if your shifter does move like vfaq mentions when you accelerate and decelerate, it may not necessarily be the nut because mine was on tight and my shifter still moves a little bit.

 

[JFatch1890]

if it was ran w/out oil, then it prob. wont help just to refill it

 

[EGGY]

did you check your shifter adjustment.....mine use to pop out of first also.....take the plastic cover off and make sure the shifter is centered..go from first to 2nd and make sure the stops hit evenenly

 

[jerseydiver84]

when i blew up my trans i had a leak that i didnt catch in time, i had a lsd put in, and the pin going through my diff slammed against the tranny casing and caused a crack and i was on my way home when my tranny started popping out of gear i pulled over didnt see anything leaking from under the car didnt see the crack tried to make it to the shop a few miles away didnt get ther before my trans blew, fluid was gone trans was toast.

 

[DSM1G90]

I'd still put fluid in it (75w/90) just for shits and giggles to get some life back into the thing. Don't call it dead until it does die...