Topic: 95 4x4 3.0v6 skipping? spark plug wires? vacuum line?

[95xtracab]

drove to get some food tonight about 2 minutes into the trip 3rd gear i pressed the throttle and it was skipping. i have no idea what couldve happened? it skipped/missed all the way home. i put new plugs and wires in about 3years ago and thats all ive done. any ideas what this could be? or why it happened?

[GNasty 82]

Check the plugs and wires anyway.  Same thing happened on another truck of mine.  The number 4 plug wire that was less than 2 years old went sour.  Really pissed me off. 

[superyota]

3.0...hmmm.  might want to do a quick check of your coolant and oil just to make sure you didn't lose a head gasket. 

[junya92toy]

3 years? time for a tune up

[95xtracab [OP]]

waters good oil is good too. it doesnt smoke or run hot it runs fine at 55mph 5th gear on the inerstate but low rpms it sucks, i put a wire in the diagnostic box tonight and turned the switch on and the cruise control light just flashed?! i did it about four times and no check engine light flashed just the cruise light repeatedly.......

[superyota]

is it a steady flash, or does it flash in intervals? example, 4 quick flashes, slight pause, 3 quick flashes, long pause, then starts over again?  or steady quick flashes with no long pauses?

[95xtracab [OP]]

just steady quick flashes.

[superyota]

just steady quick flashes.

thats normal.  means you don't have any trouble codes.  check your plugs/cap/rotor/wires.  don't know what else to check.

[Mavericks]

Mine has missed a few times in the past, once it was a hairline crack in the cap, and the other time it was one corroded spark plug.