20538793 Sealing Strip | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This genuine Volvo Penta sealing strip is an OEM service component used in the Valve-Cover Sealing Strip. It is manufactured to the original Volvo Penta dimensional, material and interface requirements for the documented Volvo Penta 13-litre TAD13 industrial and generator diesel application. Technical identification: Valve-cover sealing strip; catalogued at key 2 with valve cover 20740683. In service, it creates a controlled seal between mating surfaces so fluid, gas, pressure or contaminants cannot pass across the joint. Selection must be confirmed by OEM part number 20538793, the exact model/product number, serial number and installed assembly configuration.

🚤 Compatibility

• Engine Family: D, TAD

Full model list at the end of this description.

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta OEM sealing strip
• OEM part number 20538793
• Technical distinction: Valve-cover sealing strip; catalogued at key 2 with valve cover 20740683

🔌 Function

Creates a controlled seal between mating surfaces so fluid, gas, pressure or contaminants cannot pass across the joint. Clean and inspect both sealing surfaces, renew the seal whenever the joint is opened, avoid twisting or cutting and tighten the joint evenly to specification.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Engine-oil seepage around the valve-cover perimeter
• Oil contamination on the cylinder head or exhaust side
• Sealing strip hardened, split, flattened or displaced
• Oil odour or smoke from oil reaching hot engine surfaces
• Repeat leakage caused by a distorted cover or damaged sealing groove

🛠️ Service Notes

• Strip the old sealing strip and any adhesive residue off completely and degrease the channel or face so the new strip beds onto clean metal
• Offer the strip up dry and cut it to length in place; do not stretch it to fit, or it will pull back and open a gap at the joint
• Press the strip fully into its groove or against its face along the whole run, working from one end and taking care at corners so it is not bridged, pinched or twisted
• Where the strip seals a cover or panel, tighten the fixings evenly and only as far as specified, so the strip is compressed rather than crushed or squeezed out of its seat
• Recheck the joint after the first run and once the unit has been through a heat cycle, as a strip settles and the fixings may need checking again

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 21148929 decarbonising kit — includes 20538793
• 20740683 valve cover

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• Elring: 156.352

Aftermarket / Verified Equivalents

• PAI Industries: 831035
• PAI Industries: 831035E

📦 Condition

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

🔎 Full Model Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta D13C2-B MP, D13C1-A MP, D13C2-A MP, D13C3-A MP, D13C4-A MP, D13B-A MP, D13B-H MP, D13B-G MP, D13B-L MP, D13B-E MG, D13B-E MG (FE), D13B-E MH, D13B-E MH (FE), D13B-F MG, D13B-F MG (FE), D13B-K MP, D13B-N MH, D13B-N MH (FE), D13B-B MP, D13B-D MP, D13B-J MP, D13B-M MP, D13B-C MP, D13C4-B MP, D13C5-B MP, D13C6-A MP, D13C1-A MH, D13C2-A MH, D13C5-A MP, D13C2-A MG, D13C1-A MG, D13C7-B MP, D13C8-B MP
• Volvo Penta TAD1341-43GE-B, TAD1341VE, TAD1341GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1344-45GE-B, TAD1344VE, TAD1344GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1342VE, TAD1342GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1343VE, TAD1343GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1345GE, TAD1345VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1350GE, TAD1350VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1351GE, TAD1351-53VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1340VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1346GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1352GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1353GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1354GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1355GE
• Volvo Penta TAD1360-62VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1363-65VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1371-75VE