# 21297785 Bracket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

## 🔧 Product Description

A heavy-duty support bracket used in the charge-air cooler and intake-pipe arrangement on selected Volvo Penta TAD16 and TWD16 engines.

## 🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

-   Volvo Penta TWD1643GE

-   **Engine Family:** TWD

## ⚙️ Key Features

-   Supersedes earlier bracket 3840411
-   Supports heavy cooler and intake-pipe components
-   Reduces vibration loading on charge-air hoses
-   Engine type: TAD16 or TWD16 inline-six turbocharged diesel

## 🔌 Function

Supports and aligns the charge-air cooler and connecting pipes.

## ⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

-   Cooler movement
-   Charge-air hose failure
-   Boost leakage from misaligned connections
-   Excessive vibration or pipe fatigue

## 🛠️ Service Notes

-   Offer the bracket up and start every fastener by hand before tightening any of them, so the component is not pulled into a strained position
-   Check the mating faces are clean, flat and free of corrosion scale — a bracket that does not sit flat will work loose and let the component move
-   Renew self-locking nuts, lock washers, tab washers or thread-locking compound wherever the original assembly used them, and tighten to the figure given in the workshop manual for your engine
-   Where the bracket carries a rubber mount or bush, renew that at the same time rather than reusing a perished one
-   On brackets in the inlet and exhaust area, never force alignment to make the holes line up — cure the misalignment at its source, or the bracket and the component it holds will both crack

## 🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

### OEM Supersession Chain

-   21297785 → Supersedes 3840411

### OEM / Related Numbers

-   3840411 earlier number superseded by this part
-   3593652, 3593649, 3819654 and 3840414 - charge-air pipes
-   3883371 - heat shield
-   3819674, 21245553, 21709397, 21945675 and 21712163 - charge-air coolers
-   22432253 - coolant pipe

## 📦 Condition

-   Genuine Volvo Penta part
-   Brand new
-   Supplied in original or equivalent packaging

## Details

- **Price:** 453.85 AUD
- **Vendor:** Volvo Penta
- **Type:** Brackets & Mounts
- **Tags:** Volvo Penta

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
|---------|-------|-----------|
| Default Title | 453.85 AUD | In stock |

## Images

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> Source: [Sawley's Auto and Marine](https://www.sawleysautoandmarine.com.au/products/21297785-bracket-genuine-volvo-penta)
> Updated: 2026-10-07