Diesel Exhaust Cleanup - Interior

[Heap]

Had an exhaust elbow fracture underway. Lots of black smoke and fumes in the interior. Engine room took the brunt of it, but there is still a light oily soot in the cabin. Surprisingly, not much smell though. Anybody have advice on the best way to:
1. Clean the oily soot from the interior?
2. Clean the engines?
3. Clean the interior of the engine room?

 

[Alan Mainship]

Cleaning soot from engine room

Just had same happen to me on Yanmar 240. Cleaned engines and er with bucket of water , shot of dawn dish washing detergent, and roll off. Roll off is great , I order by gallon. Good luck, lots of rubbing, but er looks new now!?

 

[hytedin]

Dry Cleaning Soot Eraser Sponges

 

[Jaep]

Roll off cleaner. Good for soot and oil.

 

[SoWhat]

In ER: Tyvek suit, respirator, krud kutter, hi pressure water sprayer to rinse.

 

[syjos]

There are a variety of soot and smoke cleaners on the market. Amazon has several.

When we had smoke and soot cover our boat interior after a Magnum inverter meltdown, we used Simple Green as a quick fix since we were still cruising. It worked well.

When we got home, we cleaned the walls again with a spray smoke and soot cleaner.

The really hard to remove soot came off with lacquer solvent.

 

[Alaskan Sea-Duction]

Super Clean. Buy at Wal-Mart.

I use it in a bug sprayer, then rinse with water. Cleans fuel up real good....

 

[Dougcole]

Had something similar happen in the old boat, you have my sympathies. It's a big job getting in all the books and crannies.

I also vote for roll off and the purple cleaner. Cover your battery charger and alternators when spraying water in the er.

I know you realize this now, and I don't mean to rub it in, but as a warning to others you've really got to watch the elbows on yanmars, they rust out quickly. I replaced mine with stainless after market elbows, I'm hoping they give better life.

 

[Alan Mainship]

Thanks, I just replaced both mine with Stainless also, it was a pain in the butt. Anything else you had problems with?