11700434 Shim | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This is a genuine Volvo Penta shim for the fuel system, supplied in the 1.04 mm thickness variant. Shims of this type are selected by thickness to set precise clearance or preload during fuel system assembly, so confirming the TH=1,04mm size is essential before ordering. It is listed for TAD520VE and TAD720VE industrial diesel engines.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD720VE
• Volvo Penta TAD520VE

• Engine Family: TAD
• HP Range: Approximately 160-237 HP
• Year Range: Approximately early 2000s

⚙️ Key Features

• OEM Volvo Penta part number 11700434
• Thickness: 1.04 mm (TH=1,04mm) - thickness-specific variant
• System group: Fuel System
• Net weight: 0.001 kg
• Fits TAD520VE and TAD720VE series diesel engines
• Supplied as an individual shim, sized selectively during assembly
• Engine type: Volvo Penta mechanical direct-injection industrial diesel

🔌 Function

The shim acts as a precision spacer within the fuel system, taking up clearance so mating components sit at the specified height or preload. Its exact thickness determines the resulting adjustment, which is why it is offered in graded sizes.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Incorrect clearance or preload measured during fuel system service
• Visible wear, scoring or pitting on the shim faces
• Deformation, dishing or cracking from over-torque or fatigue
• Irregular fuel delivery or running issues traced to a mis-set adjustment
• Shim thickness measuring out of specification when checked with a micrometer

🛠️ Service Notes

• Shims are supplied in graded thicknesses and exist to bring a setting into specification, so measure with a micrometer and select the thickness the setting procedure for your engine calls for rather than matching one by eye
• Note which shim came from which position on removal and keep them identified — once an assembly has bedded in, shims are not interchangeable between positions
• Check both faces are clean, flat and free of burrs, corrosion and old sealant before fitting; dirt trapped under a shim shifts the setting as surely as the wrong thickness does
• Discard any shim that is dished, cracked, pitted or fretted rather than reusing it, and make sure no old shim has been left behind in the recess
• Recheck the clearance or setting after the assembly is tightened down, because clamping load can change the measurement you took loose

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 11700433 1.00mm standard shim
• 20451317 related injector
• 20405851 related nozzle
• 20405523 related compression spring
• 11700430 related spacer
• 11700432 related nozzle cap nut

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE11700434

OEM Reman Alternatives

• 3803652 related remanufactured injector

📦 Condition

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