Black Soot Around Manifold

[ARiley23]

Under my expy today and noticed quite a bit of black soot around my manifold and I just got a new exhaust system done in September. Does the black soot mean I have a leak? Am I burning oil?
I have leaky converter so I just hear that not a chugging sound like a leaky manifold makes.
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
Thanks!

 

[ARiley23]

And it's only on my driver side manifold on the inside side towards the engine. And it's not really soot it's like built up crud almost burnt oil

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[stamp11127]

Clean it off in order to determine whether it is soot or crud by running the engine for a while. Then you can determine the cause and fix.

 

[ARiley23]

I cleaned it off last night I'm going to check it again this weekend.

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[stamp11127]

I wouldn't let an exhaust leak ride very long just for safety reasons. You can suck in a bunch of carbon monoxide and then the story is over. We hear about at least one unlucky person a year that it happens too.