21482601 Gasket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A high-temperature exhaust-manifold gasket used on Volvo Penta D11 and related heavy-duty diesel engine families.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD1180-83VE
• Volvo Penta TAD943VE
• Volvo Penta TAD952VE
• Volvo Penta TAD951VE
• Volvo Penta TAD950VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1170-72VE
• Volvo Penta TAD940GE
• Volvo Penta TAD940VE
• Volvo Penta TAD941VE
• Volvo Penta TAD941GE
• Volvo Penta TAD942VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1150-52VE
• Volvo Penta TAD1140-42VE

• Engine Family: TAD

⚙️ Key Features

• Multi-layer high-temperature sealing construction
• Correct exhaust-port profile
• Maintains a gas-tight manifold joint
• Suitable for turbocharged diesel operation
• Direct replacement for the assigned cylinder-head position
• 6 used per assembly

🔌 Function

The gasket seals combustion exhaust gas between the cylinder head and exhaust manifold.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Soot marks around the manifold
• Ticking or hissing under load
• Burnt or eroded gasket edge
• Reduced turbocharger response
• Heat damage around the leaking port

🛠️ Service Notes

• Fit a new gasket every time the joint is disturbed — a gasket takes a permanent set once it has been torqued and will not seal reliably a second time
• Scrape both faces back to clean bare metal, keeping the blade at a shallow angle so it lifts the old material without gouging the surface, and use a plastic scraper on aluminium castings
• Check the faces for flatness, cracks and corrosion pitting, and make sure no old gasket, carbon or hardened sealant is left in the corners or around the bolt holes
• Fit the gasket dry unless the workshop manual for your engine calls for a sealant, and then only the type it specifies — surplus sealant squeezes out into oil, coolant and fuel passages
• Draw the fasteners down progressively in the sequence and to the torque given in the manual for your engine, and recheck after the first heat cycle where the manual asks for it

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 20984451 - Related earlier gasket reference
• 21394765 - Related OEM gasket reference

Aftermarket / Verified Equivalents

• DT Spare Parts 6.23552
• SLP EPL-2601

📦 Condition

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