21630822 Bracket | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A genuine support bracket used in the inlet and exhaust arrangement on Volvo Penta TWD1663GE industrial gas generator engines. It supports the CNG throttle, inlet hose and adjoining intake components in their designed position, reducing movement and connection stress under continuous engine vibration.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TWD1663GE

• Engine Family: TWD
• Year Range: Approximately 2015 - current production-era applications

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta inlet-system support bracket
• Used around the CNG throttle and intake-hose assembly
• Factory mounting-hole and component-clearance geometry
• Designed for continuous generator-engine vibration
• Direct replacement for a bent, cracked or corroded original bracket
• Engine type: 16.1L inline six-cylinder turbocharged industrial gas generator engine

🔌 Function

Holds the throttle and intake components securely so gas and air connections remain aligned and free from vibration-induced fatigue.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Intake or gas-hose movement
• Rattling around the throttle assembly
• Cracks or elongation around mounting holes
• Hose chafing caused by loss of support
• Air or gas leakage from stressed connections

🛠️ 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

• 21753983 - air cleaner
• 21810900 - air-filter cover
• 21716424 - air-filter element
• 21961494 - tension locks
• 21961496 - tension locks
• 22022646 - outlet flange
• 21624773 - inlet pipe
• 21674837 - CNG throttle
• 21600706 - CNG gas hose
• 21630814 - retainer
• 21631012 - cover plate

📦 Condition

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