15138785 Oil Filter Housing | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This is the oil filter housing from the lubricating and oil system for Volvo Penta TAD-series diesel engines. It provides the mounting body and sealed oil galleries that carry engine oil through the filter element, keeping filtered oil circulating to the engine's internal components. This part number has been replaced by 17427991.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

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

• Engine Family: TAD
• Year Range: Approximately mid-2000s-mid-2010s

⚙️ Key Features

• OEM Volvo Penta part number 15138785
• System group: Lubricating and Oil System
• Net weight approximately 5.94 kg
• Fits TAD1140-42VE, TAD1150-52VE and TAD1170-72VE series diesel engines
• Engine type: Volvo Penta D11 inline 6-cylinder electronically managed industrial diesel

🔌 Function

The oil filter housing mounts the engine oil filter and routes pressurised oil between the pump, the filter element and the engine's oil galleries. It maintains a sealed passage so that all circulating oil passes through the filter before reaching lubricated components.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• External oil leaks or weeping around the housing joints and sealing faces
• Cracks or damage to the housing body, often after impact or over-tightening
• Low or fluctuating oil pressure caused by internal leakage or a failed bypass passage
• Filter element sealing poorly or working loose due to a damaged sealing surface
• Oil contamination in the coolant where an integrated oil cooler interface is compromised

🛠️ Service Notes

• Renew every gasket, O-ring and sealing washer that belongs to the housing; do not reuse them, and make sure old gasket material is fully removed from both faces
• Clean the mating faces with something that will not score or dig into the metal, and do not use abrasives that leave grit behind in an oil gallery
• Check the housing internally before fitting, along with any drain plug, sensor seat, bypass or cooler connection it carries, and make sure all threads and ports are clean and clear
• Tighten evenly and progressively to the figure and sequence in the workshop manual for your engine — these housings and their threads are easily distorted or stripped by overtightening
• Fit a new oil filter, refill with the specified oil, then run the engine and confirm oil pressure comes up and stays up before looking for leaks, and check the joint again once hot

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 15138786 related oil-filter seat or housing component
• 15046827 related cover
• 15137897 related early connector
• 17432761 related later connector
• 11423710 related reduction nipple

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE15138785

Aftermarket / Verified Equivalents

• Heavy-equipment aftermarket: 15138786 housing replacement

📦 Condition

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