Help me please!! I have a 1998 Tacoma 4 cyl. 4x4. I bought it six months ago and have put quite a few miles on it. About two months ago a little problem started. Every now and then the truck would seem to hickup. Since this would happen every couple of weeks, I didn't think much about it. Now it's happening a couple of times a day. I've had a new fuel filter put on, an oil change and tune-up. Problem is still there but has diminished some. On the advice of a couple of friends I let the gas get as far down as I could, then put in some Dry Gas and switched to a better gas dealer. The problem has gotten better. This makes me think it's the gas I was putting in. I'll admit that I'm cheap and have recently bought cheap gas, hence the increase in the hickup a couple of weeks ago. <br>Has anyone ever experienced this type of problem or heard of it?<br>Any thought anyone has is welcome.

I had a Ranger that started this a little past 100,000 miles. A new set of plug wires and distributor fixed it.

There's a good chance you got some bad gas and your injectors got a bit clogged (assuming it's fuel injected). You should try running som e fuel injector cleaner through it which might help. Worst case is you might have to actually clean out the injectors manually.