22376361 Valve Cover | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

This genuine Volvo Penta valve / rocker cover is used in the following application: Volvo Penta TAD8 industrial and generator diesel cylinder-head assemblies. Encloses the valve train, controls oil splash and provides sealed mounting points for ventilation and ancillary cover components.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAD841-43GE
• Volvo Penta TAD851-53GE
• Volvo Penta TAD880-82GE
• Volvo Penta TAD880-84VE
• Volvo Penta TAD870-73VE
• Volvo Penta TAD840GE-B
• Volvo Penta TADH880-82GE
• Volvo Penta TADH880-84VE
• Volvo Penta TAD852VE-B
• Volvo Penta TAD840-43VE-C
• Volvo Penta TAD850-52VE-C

• Engine Family: TAD, TADH

⚙️ Key Features

• Model-specific TAD88 valve-cover geometry
• Correct breather and mounting interfaces
• Contains lubricating-oil splash
• Protects rocker and valve-train components
• Cover only; gasket and fittings are separate unless supplied

🔌 Function

Encloses the valve train, controls oil splash and provides sealed mounting points for ventilation and ancillary cover components.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Oil leakage at the perimeter gasket
• Cracks around fastener bosses
• Warped cover causing repeated gasket failure
• Damaged breather or connector ports
• Loose shoulder screws or stripped threads
• Oil contamination of nearby exhaust or electrical components

🛠️ Service Notes

• Fit a new gasket or seal whenever the cover comes off, and clean both faces down to clean, dry material without scoring them — use a plastic scraper on aluminium and on moulded covers, never an abrasive disc
• Check the cover itself for distortion and for cracks around the bolt holes, and renew the sealing rings, grommets or spacers that sit under the bolts along with it
• Draw the bolts down evenly from the centre outwards to the figure in the workshop manual for your engine; over-tightening distorts the cover and crushes the gasket, which is the usual reason a freshly gasketed cover still leaks
• Make sure the breather, oil filler and any sensor or fitting carried in the cover are clear and correctly sealed before it goes back on
• Degrease the area after fitting so that at the next check a genuine leak can be told from residual oil

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM / Related Numbers

• 22413350 - associated valve-cover gasket
• 22450719 - associated shoulder screw; seventeen used in the illustrated assembly
• 21717750 - secondary cover
• 21717753 - associated gasket for secondary cover
• 21717616 - associated screw; four used for secondary cover

📦 Condition

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