21746050 Gasket Kit | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

A genuine Volvo Penta complete engine gasket package for the TAD550GE genset engine. It covers the principal block, timing, lubrication, cooling and manifold joints, while the cylinder-head gasket is ordered separately to match the engine's exact production specification.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD550GE
• Volvo Penta TAD551GE

• Engine Family: TAD

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta complete TAD550GE gasket set
• Cylinder-head gasket explicitly excluded
• Covers lower engine and ancillary sealing points
• Suitable for major overhaul
• head-gasket selection retained
• Engine type: Volvo Penta TAD550GE inline 4-cylinder genset diesel

📋 Kit Contents

• 1 x complete matched engine gasket and seal pack - Volvo Penta 21746050
• Cylinder-head gasket - not included and ordered separately by engine serial number
• Individual loose seals are production-revision controlled and not published as one fixed breakdown

🔌 Function

The kit replaces the static seals disturbed during major engine dismantling while allowing the correct head gasket to be selected separately.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Engine is being rebuilt
• Multiple oil or coolant leaks are present
• Timing cover or sump has been removed
• Existing gaskets are hardened or damaged
• Cylinder-head gasket is being selected separately

🛠️ Service Notes

• Check the kit contents against the joints you are actually opening before you start, and lay the parts out so nothing is left in the bag
• Renew every gasket in the kit as a set; a used gasket has already taken its crush and will not seal a second time
• Clean the mating faces properly without gouging them — a plastic or hardwood scraper and a solvent are safer than a steel blade, especially on aluminium
• Fit gaskets dry unless the workshop manual for your engine specifies a sealant, and then use only the sealant it names
• Tighten the joint evenly in the sequence and to the figures given in the manual for your engine, and re-check after the first heat cycle where the manual calls for it

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM Supersession Chain

• 21746050 → Supersedes 21665913

OEM / Related Numbers

• 21665913 earlier number superseded by this part
• TAD550GE cylinder-head gasket selected separately

📦 Condition

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