20911633 Plane Gasket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A genuine Volvo Penta plane gasket for the sectional exhaust-manifold joint used on the specified D5/D7 engine installation. The gasket seals hot, pulsating exhaust gas between machined manifold faces while allowing the correctly assembled manifold to accommodate thermal growth.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD560VE
• Volvo Penta TAD561VE
• Volvo Penta TAD734GE
• Volvo Penta TAD750VE
• Volvo Penta TAD752GE
• Volvo Penta TAD753GE
• Volvo Penta TAD754GE
• Volvo Penta TAD760VE
• Volvo Penta TAD765VE
• Volvo Penta TAD764VE
• Volvo Penta TAD763VE
• Volvo Penta TAD762VE
• Volvo Penta TAD761VE

• Engine Family: TAD

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta High-Temperature Exhaust Manifold Plane Gasket - part number 20911633
• High-temperature flat gasket for an exhaust-manifold section joint
• Port aperture matches the manifold gas passage without obstructing flow
• Resists exhaust pressure pulsation, soot and repeated heat cycling
• Works with the specified spacers and high-temperature manifold fasteners
• Single-use sealing component; do not refit a compressed gasket
• Mating flanges must be flat, crack-free and able to move as the sectional design requires
• Engine type: D5/D7-series sectional exhaust-manifold systems
• Quantity varies by assembly, most commonly three

🔌 Function

The gasket closes the joint between two exhaust components so the gas pulse reaches the turbocharger or outlet without leakage. A sound joint preserves turbocharger drive energy and prevents hot gas or soot escaping into the engine compartment.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Black soot trace at the manifold joint
• Sharp ticking noise that increases with load
• Loss of boost response or exhaust energy
• Burnt or eroded gasket edge
• Repeat leakage from warped flanges or seized expansion joints

🛠️ Service Notes

• Always fit a new gasket, and take the old one off completely without scoring the joint faces — a plastic scraper and a residue-free solvent on aluminium, never an abrasive disc or a steel blade
• Check both faces for flatness, corrosion pitting and pulled threads before assembly; a gasket cannot bridge a distorted or damaged joint face
• Fit dry unless the procedure for your engine specifically calls for sealant — sealant on a gasket designed to run dry acts as a lubricant and lets the gasket creep out under clamping load
• Locate the gasket on its dowels or bolts and check every port, passage and bolt hole lines up before anything is tightened
• Draw the fasteners down in stages, evenly and from the centre outwards, to the figure in the workshop manual for your engine
• Handle the gasket flat and unfolded — a crease or a nicked edge becomes a leak path

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE20911633
• Victor Reinz: 71-36731-00

Aftermarket / Verified Equivalents

• Trucktec Automotive: 03.16.005
• DT Spare Parts: 2.24203

📦 Condition

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