21883697 Plug | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This genuine Volvo Penta plug is manufactured for the original engine, drive or vessel-system assembly. Its dimensions, material and installation position must match the product serial-specific parts catalogue.

🚤 Compatibility

• Year Range: approximately 2012-2016

⚙️ Key Features

• Plug made for the original engine, drive or vessel-system assembly
• Dimensions, material and installed position must match the original

🔌 Function

Blanks an opening in the assembly, keeping the fluid inside and dirt and water out until the opening is needed at a service.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Weep, drip or a stain running below the plug
• Plug loose at a service check
• Drive head rounded or burred on removal
• Thread or sealing seat corroded or damaged
• Plug seized in its housing

🛠️ Service Notes

• Clean the threads and the seating face before fitting, and make sure the opening itself is clear of old sealant, swarf and corrosion
• Renew the sealing washer or O-ring where one is fitted rather than reusing a flattened one, and only use thread sealant where the workshop manual for your engine calls for it
• Tighten to the figure given in the workshop manual for your engine — plugs in aluminium and other soft castings strip easily, and a plug pulled up hard to cure a leak usually distorts the seat and makes it worse
• Where the plug closes an oil, fuel or coolant passage, run the engine up to temperature afterwards and check the joint under pressure before signing the job off
• Keep removed plugs paired with the holes they came out of during a strip-down — plugs of very similar appearance often differ in thread, reach or sealing type

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

Other-Brand OEM Numbers

• VOE21883697

📦 Condition

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