Anybody have any ideas on how to clean the soot out of one's clothes
(Wife's pissed)

Thanks,
Pete

Do not clean soot out of engineparts, the engine need soot to regulate temperature range.

But soot at clotches you need chemichal cleaner for car mechanic clotches

Jens Eirik

goop hand cleaner[sm=rolleyes.gif]my wife hasn't caught me yet

If you are getting soot, you may be overcompressed and loosing power. I understand that some fuels made with auto starter fluid will run black regardless.

Jim

Thanks, I'll try the goop first
It was the first run, and while tuning it, stupid me stands right in the exhaust (davis ABC mix)
Pete

Jim..
Not only overcompressed, some fuel (mostly homebrewed fuel) has medicinal castor oil and creates black sludge in the exhaust when the dieselengine are running normal.

Jens Eirik

Hello; I brought my scimitar to the field one day last summer. I wanted to run a tank of fuel through my new Irvine Diesel. I put it up on the table, fueled it up and fired it up and went to sit down and wait until it ran out. My friend Bill parked just on the other side of the fence from me to bring his plane and flight box to the pits. He got interested in my Irvine and didn't move his brand new S 10 pickup until it had run out.

Two weeks later, and Bill has traded in the S 10 for a new Montana. A few weeks after that Bill tells me the S 10 was covered with an oily sooty black stuff that his wife didn't like. So rather then wash it all off he traded in the S 10 on a new Montana. Neither of us thought about it at the time, but we both realized that the oily sooty stuff was from running the diesel so close to his pickup. Bill thought it was a GM preservative that the local dealer hadn't removed.

Pete, If things don't work out as planned, plan "B" would be to consider those your "diesel running clothes".

George