Fairly new tundra owner and screwed up already

Hello, my name is Paul, ( SaulofTarsus). I am new to the Forum. Let me explain the title of this post. After first getting my Tundra about a year ago now, I was overly excited with the new Power I've had Fords all my life and besides the fact of me locking the keys in the tundra probably eight times now and wearing out my welcome with the free roadside service from Nationwide everything has been great with the new tundra until... I cut the Cats Out! Yes I did and I've had nothing but hell ever since. anyway I won't go into detail. As its a self-inflicted wound. Just wanted to introduce myself and say im grateful for this forum and I look forward to bouncing ideas off of some of you guys

 

Welcome from SoCal

 

Welcome! You can edit your posts btw. Should be to the right of the timestamp.

 

Welcome! 1.78 a gallon , give me some of that!

 

Idea: put the cats back in

 

Thats the plan mountainpete. Its a money thing right now. Plus i wanted to search around in here and see if i couod find some aftetmarket cats not so expensive. I dont believe that animal exist

 

haha, welcome to the OP!

Gas is 1.549 to 1.659 in Knoxville today, haha!

 

Welcome from Ontario Canada

 

Welcome from Maine. A word of advice..always keep the parts you take off the truck. I have a graveyard of tundra parts behind my garage but if the day ever comes that I decide to sell it, I can put it back to stock.

 

What were you expecting by removing the cats? These days the emission controls are so tightly managed by the computers that removing anything will throw codes.
You might try to find some at wrecking yard. I'm sure the same cats were used for a few years.

 

Welcome! What part of Mississippi are you from? I grew up in MS and now live in LA (Lower Alabama).

 

Bakershack, I grew up in Carthage Ms but i now live in Moselle. Just north of Hattiesburg

 

Welcome! My Dad lives in Guntown right out of Tupelo but we're from LA (Lower Arkansas).

 

And Bleach, i dont guess i was thinking at all. Of course i got rid of the cats for 400$ and bought the device that was supposed to "fool" the ecm to thinking cats were still there. Guess what. It dont work. Lol. My yota runs very very rich and the trac off light, engine light, and 4lo flashing stay on. I attached a pic of the codes. Ive gotten used to it ,

 

Welcome from New Mexico!

 

I am not an expert but that is showing you running too lean not rich. You better be very careful with that as lean can cause excessive heat and burn up your pistons.....

not saying that would happen, but I would be going back to stock ASAP.

One person on here who could help is @dirtydeeds

He is a resident expert on exhaust and would probably steer you in the right direction of getting cats or making what you have work.

Did you replace the whole exhaust system or just cut it off?

 

Welcome

 

Damn CA, think I paid 2.80 the other day

 

I’m from Bham!

 

My Cat recommendation would be a "MagnaFlow high flow universal cats " their about $86 to $156 apc depending on size , might need to add a extra $20 for extra pipe as their length might be shorter unless you already have pipe in place of the existing space of the oem cats.

Recommend places:
Summit racing
Jegs

An dont forget the correct i.d /o.d .

An welcome

 

Cool - I got a degree from USM in Hattiesburg a lifetime ago, and worked in Laurel for 8 years, and moved to Spanish Fort, across the bay from, Mobile in 2007. I had a roommate from Carthage when I was at USM.

If you ever make it down to the coast, let me know. I like meeting new people, especially when I know we already have something in common!

 

Welcome. Good luck with the fix. Hope you get it back right soon

 

Dirty deeds is the way to go. He can fabricate custom mid pipe with cats. 2, 2.5, or 3 inch piping, he can make it happen.

 

Welcome aboard from The Pacific South West.

 

Welcome from Nevada

 

This^^^^^^^^

 

Howdy from DFW and nice truck

 

Welcome from CO

 

Welcome from Ohio