Sounds like it is time for a complete tune-up.
Fuel Pump
its getting ready to explode. jump out quick
Dude, the engine is smoked. Sorry to have to tell you.
Gravity.
Is your oil level?
because it is going uphill and the engine has to work harder?
Bad spark plugs are plug wires.
HONKING means to "ride out of the saddle" or standing. Honking is often used when accelerating or riding uphill. HONKING is also a trademarked term for a new form of indoor cycling group class.
Once you have achieved highway speed, you would stay in the highest gear, except for steep uphill or downhill grades.
Is the vehicles transmission downshifting to a lower gear as you go uphill? If not, that would be your first place to look. After that I would suspect that your engine timing is not autmatically advancing as it should be.
Uphill Battle ended in 2005.
Uphill Battle was created in 1999.