# 21868016 Bracket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

## 🔧 Product Description

A genuine bracket used in the fan-hub and accessory-belt drive on Volvo Penta TAD1140-42VE industrial engines. It supports the pulley, tensioner and idler components in alignment.

## 🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

-   Volvo Penta TAD1170-72VE
-   Volvo Penta TAD1150-52VE
-   Volvo Penta TAD1140-42VE

-   **Engine Family:** TAD
-   **HP Range:** Approximately 380-540 HP
-   **Year Range:** Approximately 2010 - 2020

## ⚙️ Key Features

-   Genuine Volvo Penta cooling-fan support component
-   Factory diameter and mounting geometry
-   Maintains fan clearance and airflow
-   Designed for industrial-engine vibration
-   Direct replacement for the matching original part
-   Engine type: 10.8L inline six-cylinder turbocharged industrial diesel

## 🔌 Function

Supports or surrounds the cooling fan so airflow is directed through the radiator while the rotating blades maintain safe clearance.

## ⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

-   Fan contact with the ring or guard
-   Cooling-system vibration or rattling
-   Reduced airflow and engine overheating

## 🛠️ 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 / Related Numbers

-   20590012 - companion bracket
-   21422765 - belt tensioner
-   20851842 - idler pulley
-   8097084 - protective cover
-   21924453 - fan hub
-   3586364 - pulley
-   21454048 - V-ribbed belt

## 📦 Condition

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

## Details

- **Price:** 288.63 AUD
- **Vendor:** Volvo Penta
- **Type:** Brackets & Mounts
- **Tags:** Volvo Penta

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
|---------|-------|-----------|
| Default Title | 288.63 AUD | In stock |

## Images

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> Source: [Sawley's Auto and Marine](https://www.sawleysautoandmarine.com.au/products/21868016-bracket-genuine-volvo-penta)
> Updated: 2026-10-08