suddenly loss of power

I have a 96 Isuzu Hombre truck with 91,000 miles.
It has been running surprising and pleasantly great, but today coming
back from a job it suddenly has little power.

Other than that it sounds fine except for a small tapping sound which it
has had for several years. There are no loose cables or tubings, no funny
smells, nothing usual. I could barely get it up to speed on the freeway.
It will still do 70 miles an hour once I go through all the gears.

Any small hill, I have to down shift to make it up.

Any ideas what could have happened...feels like it is not getting gas.
could it be a plugged filter??

Thanks

I assume it's not missing on one cylinder? It would be obviously vibrating
badly, etc if that were the case. My wife's Trooper lost spark in a
cylinder...it was all I could do to get it up to 65 or so in 3rd gear
(4-speed auto). Ended up one of the coil packs was bad and the plug wires
were in need of replacement as well.

Wesley


"Helaman" <zoraster.RemoveThis@REMOVEopera.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 96 Isuzu Hombre truck with 91,000 miles.
> It has been running surprising and pleasantly great, but today coming
> back from a job it suddenly has little power.
>
> Other than that it sounds fine except for a small tapping sound which it
> has had for several years. There are no loose cables or tubings, no funny
> smells, nothing usual. I could barely get it up to speed on the freeway.
> It will still do 70 miles an hour once I go through all the gears.
>
> Any small hill, I have to down shift to make it up.
>
> Any ideas what could have happened...feels like it is not getting gas.
> could it be a plugged filter??
>
> Thanks