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Old 09-17-2016, 05:05 PM   #1
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Keeping it clean ?

What solutions have you all come up with for keeping the diesel soot of the passenger side of your 5r?




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Old 09-17-2016, 06:06 PM   #2
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Having a properly tuned engine keeps my rig clean.
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Old 09-17-2016, 06:24 PM   #3
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Having a properly tuned engine keeps my rig clean.


Pretty much the same here. Since my engine is mechanical, I don't have a computer to lean out the fuel at higher altitudes, so I will get some soot at high altitude. I just clean the soot off when I get home.
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Old 09-18-2016, 01:52 AM   #4
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While many malign the environmental controls on today's diesels, benefit of a properly working diesel particular filter ... no soot on my 5er!
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Old 09-18-2016, 02:50 AM   #5
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While many malign the environmental controls on today's diesels, benefit of a properly working diesel particular filter ... no soot on my 5er!
^^^^^^^^^^^This!
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Old 09-18-2016, 05:56 AM   #6
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While many malign the environmental controls on today's diesels, benefit of a properly working diesel particular filter ... no soot on my 5er!
"controls" is the key word. For whatever excuse they can find we are being controlled. I would not mind a little soot ......
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Old 09-18-2016, 07:37 AM   #7
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We had a 1993 F250 with a naturally aspirated (non-turbo) 7.3L diesel engine. We seldom had any problem with soot when towing around the southeast. We made a couple of trips to Las Vegas with the rig. Towing over the pass at Albuquerque proved to be the "undoing" of that "little soot" claim. Going up the mountain I noticed a significant "exhaust plume" from the truck. I kept going, mostly in second gear at 30MPH until we reached the top. Easy travels "down the mountain", but when we got to the bottom, stopped for the night and unlocked the trailer, everything inside was also covered with soot. Until then, we'd always travelled with a rear roof vent open. Well, that created just enough vacuum to not only coat the passenger's side of the trailer with soot, but to draw it in and cover most of the inside with that same "stuff". DW was, from that moment, not a "happy camper" for the rest of that trip.

Needless to say, when we returned to Louisiana from that trip, the first "upgrade" we started looking for was a turbo system for the truck. Banks made a great system, but it turned out to be "cheaper" (in our situation) to buy a new truck rather than upgrade the old one.

So, without knowing what model truck, or what equipment you have on the engine, it's hard to suggest a way to "fix the soot issue".

As for cleaning, I found that Dawn, hot water and a lot of "scrub brush action" was the only way to get it off the side. FILON may be different, but on our Holiday Rambler's painted aluminum skin, getting as much off "mechanically" as we could, then using a good "cleaner wax" and an electric buffer was the only way to "conquer the soot stains".....

I suppose the "moral of the story" is to do what you can to prevent the formation of soot, keep your truck in proper running condition and try to stay ahead of the accumulation along the side of your trailer. Cleaning a "little bit" seems to be much easier than cleaning "a whole mess" at the end of the summer.
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Old 09-18-2016, 03:36 PM   #8
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I put a nice chrome turn down on mine to shoot the exhaust towards the ground and that really helped.
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Old 09-20-2016, 09:49 AM   #9
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While many malign the environmental controls on today's diesels, benefit of a properly working diesel particular filter ... no soot on my 5er!
My truck is modified and it don't blow soot. The trick is to not "tune" the truck like your hooking up to a 60K pound sled at the fair. Lots of farm kids around here are big into the whole "rolling coal" thing and blowing huge black clouds thinking their cool. Johnny law has cracked down on that and it has mostly went away.
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Old 09-20-2016, 12:48 PM   #10
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I don't have a diesel soot problem. My truck has all emissions deleted. I set the programmer to no power which is still 50 whp over stock. I try to judge stoplights so I am still rolling and don't try to keep up with everybody else when lights turn green. I did have some soot on my trailer when we went to Misty Mountain Campground in western Virginia and had to deal with the mountains.
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Old 09-21-2016, 07:16 AM   #11
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Even though my 2001 Cummins 24V blows some soot until the boost is up there is no soot on or in the trailer. My brush guard mudflap system collects some, but that pressure washes off with the help of ZEP Truck and Trailer wash.

Simple Green removes exhaust stains on airplanes, so I guess it would work for diesel soot stains, too. It will remove wax/polish, though.
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Old 09-23-2016, 02:15 PM   #12
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The new tier 4 engines burn so clean even with 40 pounds of boost there's no soot.
Can't beat the mileage either
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Old 09-23-2016, 04:41 PM   #13
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A good coat of wax will make it easier to clean.
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Old 09-28-2016, 02:49 AM   #14
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Old 09-28-2016, 09:52 AM   #15
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Having a properly tuned engine keeps my rig clean.
Curious. How do you recommend properly tuning a computer controlled diesel engine?
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