3827495 Heat Exchanger Element | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

Genuine Volvo Penta heat exchanger element for the Cooling System group, weighing 27.125 kg and listed for 3 applications on TAMD series engines. It is the shell-and-tube core alone - the housing and end covers are separate service parts. It supersedes part number 3825960, which was also catalogued as a heat exchanger element. This is a heavy item needing mechanical handling.

🚤 Compatibility

Typically suits:

• Volvo Penta TAMD122P-A
• Volvo Penta TAMD122P-B
• Volvo Penta TAMD122P-C

• Engine Family: TAMD

⚙️ Key Features

• Supersedes 3825960
• 27.125 kg - heavy handling item
• Core only - housing and end covers are separate service parts
• 3 TAMD applications
• Heat exchanger element

🔌 Function

Carries engine coolant through a tube stack washed by raw water, transferring the engine's waste heat into the seawater circuit.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• Coolant temperature climbing under load
• Coolant loss with no external leak, or oil traces in the raw water
• Salt or scale crust at the end covers
• Tube stack silted, scaled or partly blocked on strip-down
• Tubes weeping or failing a pressure test

🛠️ Service Notes

• If your records show 3825960, this is the current number
• Renew the end cover gaskets and O-rings whenever the element is disturbed, and check the anodes
• The other heat exchanger element in this range, 3827496 at 36.718 kg, is a noticeably larger unit for TMD and TAMD engines - check which your engine takes

🔄 Supersession & Cross Reference

OEM Supersession Chain

• 3827495 → Supersedes 3825960 → Supersedes 866638

OEM / Related Numbers

• 3825960 earlier number superseded by this part
• 866638 earlier number superseded by this part

📦 Condition

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