24438169 Oil Return Pipe | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

Genuine Volvo Penta oil return pipe, part number 24438169, listed in the Lubricating and Oil System group. It carries oil between two points in the lubricating circuit, returning or feeding it along a route shaped for its position on the engine. Volvo Penta publishes no fitment, dimensions or assembly detail against this number, so check it against the parts list for your own engine before ordering.

⚙️ Key Features

• Genuine Volvo Penta oil return pipe
• Lubricating and Oil System group
• Carries oil within the lubricating circuit
• No fitment or dimensions published against this number — check it against the parts list for your engine

🔌 Function

Carries oil between two points in the lubricating circuit, returning or feeding it along a route shaped for its position on the engine.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Oil wetness, staining or drips at the pipe's flanges or unions, and oil trails running down below the joint
• A hardened, flattened or cracked pipe, or perished seals found on removal
• Heavy carbon or sludge blocking the bore when the pipe is taken off
• Oil appearing where it should not because the return is restricted rather than because a seal has failed
• Fastener holes pulled or sealing faces distorted from previous overtightening

🛠️ Service Notes

• Always fit new gaskets, O-rings or sealing washers — these joints see hot oil and a reused seal rarely holds
• Check the pipe is clear before it goes back on; if the bore is coked or sludged, renew it rather than trying to clean it out, because a restricted return backs oil up and pushes it past seals
• Route the pipe so it runs downhill to its outlet with no kinks, sags or strain, and do not spring it into place to make the flanges meet
• Clean the sealing faces without scoring them, and tighten the flange or union fasteners evenly to the figure in the workshop manual for your engine — these often thread into alloy and strip easily
• Run the engine up to temperature afterwards and check the joints while hot, since a marginal seal will often only weep once everything has expanded

📦 Condition

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