Truck dies when put into gear , idles fine in park ,

What is your question?

Like I said it idles fine just soon as I put it in gear it dies its an automatic the check engine light is on whenever I reset it it will go into gear fine then 5 sec later lights comes on and it dies I just bought the truck the guy before me said it ran fine in till now only problem he said it had was every once in a while it wouldn't go into reverse , I did have a code reader put on it the only code pulled up was p1300

How long has your 1996 Toyota Tacoma had this problem?

Just started