21617483 Bracket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A formed bracket used to support housing 21617458 and its associated engine-system components.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta D8A2-A MP
• Volvo Penta D8A4-A MP

• Engine Family: D

⚙️ Key Features

• Housing-support application
• Correct factory mounting geometry
• Reduces vibration and component movement
• Engine-duty corrosion-resistant construction
• Designed for the associated fasteners and mounting points

🔌 Function

The bracket secures the related housing so attached lines and internal components remain correctly aligned.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Bent bracket
• Housing movement or vibration
• Fretting at the mounting points

🛠️ Service Notes

• Offer the bracket up and start every fastener by hand before tightening any of them, so the component is not pulled into a strained position
• Check the mating faces are clean, flat and free of corrosion scale — a bracket that does not sit flat will work loose and let the component move
• Renew self-locking nuts, lock washers, tab washers or thread-locking compound wherever the original assembly used them, and tighten to the figure given in the workshop manual for your engine
• Where the bracket carries a rubber mount or bush, renew that at the same time rather than reusing a perished one
• On brackets in the inlet and exhaust area, never force alignment to make the holes line up — cure the misalignment at its source, or the bracket and the component it holds will both crack

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 21617458 - Related housing
• 21617456 - Related plug

📦 Condition

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