Unburned fuel passing through it superheating the catylist. Either because of poor mixture or misfire usually. Check your backpressure-this condition can clog them up in almost no time. Use a vac guage and monitor at idle if it goes down while truck is running, backpressure is slowing down engine.
Fly-wheel may be cracked or the converter bolts are loose. Need to remove the fly-wheel dust cover, so you can see up inside.
yes
It is illegal to remove a converter from any vehicle without replacing it with a new one.
Yes, if it came from the factory with a converter.
It is the part that the torque converter goes into in the transmission.It is the part that the torque converter goes into in the transmission.
catalic converter was removed, or needs replacing
You can but the vehicle won't pass emissions.
There are 4 located in the exhaust system that I know of. Two on left side befor cat converter. One on right side before converter and one between converter and muffler
Plugged fuel filter? Plugged air filter? Plugged catalytic converter?
Depending on the exhaust system, there will be one before and one after each catalytic converter
it should be located on the front exaust pipe before the cat converter.
u need to check your exhaust system i have never yet seen any diesel that has a catalytic converter installed