16381 Plug | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This is a genuine Volvo Penta plug (part number 16381), a small sealing component used to close off a threaded or machined port so that fluid or pressure is retained within the housing or passage. It is catalogued as an alternative option for certain applications, so confirm the arrangement on your engine before ordering. It is listed for a broad spread of Volvo Penta marine and industrial diesel engines, including the D12D, D13C, TMD and TAMD families.

🚤 Compatibility

• Engine Family: TAD, TAMD, D, TMD

Full model list at the end of this description.

⚙️ Key Features

• OEM Volvo Penta part number 16381
• Listed as an alternative option for applicable engine arrangements
• Net weight 0.025 kg
• Fits D12D, D13C, TMD and TAMD series marine and industrial diesel engines
• Genuine Volvo Penta replacement component
• Engine type: Volvo Penta marine and industrial diesel

🔌 Function

The plug seals a threaded or machined opening in an engine housing, passage or component so that oil, coolant, fuel or pressure cannot escape. It also provides a removable access point for draining, filling or servicing that passage.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Seepage, weeping or dripping around the plug seat
• Damaged, corroded or pitted sealing face that will no longer seal
• Stripped, cross-threaded or rounded threads preventing correct torque
• Plug loosening in service and causing pressure or fluid loss
• Corrosion or seizing that makes removal during servicing difficult

🛠️ Service Notes

• Clean the threads and the seating face before fitting, and make sure the opening itself is clear of old sealant, swarf and corrosion
• Renew the sealing washer or O-ring where one is fitted rather than reusing a flattened one, and only use thread sealant where the workshop manual for your engine calls for it
• Tighten to the figure given in the workshop manual for your engine — plugs in aluminium and other soft castings strip easily, and a plug pulled up hard to cure a leak usually distorts the seat and makes it worse
• Where the plug closes an oil, fuel or coolant passage, run the engine up to temperature afterwards and check the joint under pressure before signing the job off
• Keep removed plugs paired with the holes they came out of during a strip-down — plugs of very similar appearance often differ in thread, reach or sealing type

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 947624 - related sealing gasket in selected oil-pressure installations
• 954342 - related elbow nipple
• 873526 - related oil-pressure switch
• 873601 - related switch cable

📦 Condition

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

🔎 Full Model Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta D12D-A MG, D12D-A MP, D12D-B MH, D12D-C MH, D12D-C MP, D12D-E MG, D12D-G MP, D12D-H MP
• Volvo Penta TAMD162C-C, TAMD162A, TAMD162C, TAMD162C-B
• Volvo Penta TAMD122A, TAMD122A/C, TAMD122D
• Volvo Penta D13C1-B MG, D13C2-B MG
• Volvo Penta TAMD165A, TAMD165C
• Volvo Penta TAD1643VE-B
• Volvo Penta TAMD121D
• Volvo Penta TAMD163A-A
• Volvo Penta TAMD61A
• Volvo Penta TAMD71A
• Volvo Penta TMD100C
• Volvo Penta TMD121C