01 dodge ram 1500 gas problem

Asked by Gregory Aug 19, 2023 at 08:51 PM about the 2001 Dodge RAM 1500 SLT Club Cab 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My 01 dodge ram 1500 is burning to much gas I could go 250 miles with one
tank and we did my injectors and it still burning gas  to much and blowing black
smoke out here and there. I also remove my How do I convert her beef for this
was all an issue because it was so clogged so I cut it off and and just made a
little pipe, for the Catalytic converter

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You just created more problems by doing that, now the computer can't read the catalysts performance. Black smoke is too rich condition, so you could have a sensor misread like the ECT or ACT sensor, bad sensor grounds, bad fuel regulator or even a bad fuel pump. Live data scanning can show the sensor readings but they might be off due to catalyst missing so ignore anything referring to O2 sensor 2 position for the time being until you get the rich condition fixed.

This fuel problem started 3 weeks ago the cat been cut off for 8 months so it was fine up to this problem

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