What is a Diesel Retrofit Installer
Author: Ezra Drissman

A diesel retrofit installer typically involves making a
fleet of vehicles emit lower diesel exhaust through a
program to install a retrofit device to highway and
non-road vehicles. The premise is to create cleaner running
diesel vehicles, especially in heavy equipment situations.

The career outlook for a diesel retrofit installer is good.
They make on average $39-$59 thousand a year.

The job as a diesel retrofit installer involves analyzing a
fleet inventory, logging exhaust temperature data,
understanding the DPF regeneration and cleaning
requirements, selecting the appropriate retrofit
technology, parts, installing the units and monitoring
backpressure and maintaining the engine for optimal exhaust
control.

Because ultra low sulfur diesel fuel is required for
highway vehicles and will be phased in to the non-road
sector beginning in 2010, the time is now to start
installing diesel retrofit units to make vehicles and off
road heavy equipment compliant with EPA standards.

Because the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality
has started the diesel retrofit initiative for cleaner air
quality, any vehicles that burn diesel and biodiesel need
to be equipped for the newer types of diesel blends and
diesel retrofit installers are a growing occupational field
that is a result of energy efficiency and the recent
"green" movement.

A diesel retrofit installer can generally get training for
the position from the retrofit supplier, since most of them
will provide training to fleet mechanics and personnel as
part of purchasing retrofit units from them. A diesel
mechanic can quickly become trained as a diesel retrofit
installer, and the retrofit device typically is installed
as muffler replacement.

Because of this, many muffler replacement technicians are
also being trained in diesel retrofit and some companies
may choose a company where there is diesel retrofit
installer personnel, if they don't have their own fleet
mechanic team.

This is part of the push for a greener America, to burn
more efficient and less polluting fuels, and the ultra low
sulfur diesel fuel will become the standard by 2010.

Because there are millions of diesel burning vehicles on
America's roads emitting harmful diesel emissions, the new
regulations make diesel retrofit the most effective means
of getting vehicles in compliance. Other options include
replacing older vehicles, put a new engine in, or rebuild
the present engine. Obviously diesel retrofit installer
jobs will become more popular since the other options cost
more than the $900 to $1500 per vehicle diesel retrofit.

A diesel retrofit installer will be in high demand as the
phase in of non-road equipment is covered and should stay
that way until the 2010 deadline, in this effort to cut
pollution and make America a "greener" place to live.


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