21581971 Cover | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A genuine lubricating-system cover used on Volvo Penta D13-series diesel engines. The cover closes the applicable oil-filter or lubricating-oil housing and supports the sealing interface needed to retain oil pressure and prevent contamination.

🚤 Compatibility

• Year Range: Approximately 2009 - 2020 production-era applications

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta D13 lubricating-system cover
• Used in an oil-filter or oil-housing assembly
• Factory-machined sealing and fastener surfaces
• Designed for hot pressurised engine oil
• Approximate component weight: 0.19kg
• Engine type: 12.8L inline six-cylinder turbocharged diesel

🔌 Function

Closes the oil-system housing, compresses the applicable seal and maintains the designed oil-flow path and pressure containment.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Oil seepage around the cover joint
• Cracking, distortion or damaged threads
• Falling oil pressure after leakage develops
• Contamination entering through a damaged sealing surface
• Recurring leakage caused by an incorrect seal or uneven tightening

🛠️ Service Notes

• Clean both sealing faces back to clean metal and check the cover for distortion, cracks or pulled bolt holes before refitting — a warped flange will not seal even with a new gasket
• Where the joint uses a gasket, seal or O-ring, always fit a new one and seat it dry unless the workshop manual for your engine specifies a sealant; never try to make a poor joint tight with extra sealant
• Tighten the fasteners progressively and evenly, working out from the centre, to the figure given in the manual for your engine — pressed steel, alloy and plastic covers distort easily if pulled down hard or unevenly
• If the cover carries a shaft seal or bearing, support it square to the shaft as it goes on so the seal lip is not nicked or rolled over
• Check that any breather, drain or oil return passage in the cover is clear before final tightening, and look for leaks once the engine has been run up to temperature

📦 Condition

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