948599 Shim | Genuine Volvo Penta Part

🔧 Product Description

Genuine Volvo Penta shim, part number 948599, listed in the Fasteners and Fixings group. It sets the standing height or clearance at an assembly, so the joint is built to the dimension the workshop manual calls for. 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 shim
• Fasteners and Fixings group
• Sets a built dimension — measure rather than assume
• No fitment or dimensions published against this number — check it against the parts list for your engine

🔌 Function

Sets the standing height or clearance at an assembly, so the joint is built to the dimension the workshop manual calls for.

⚠️ Common Signs of Failure

• A clearance or setting that will not come into specification with the shim currently fitted
• Free play or end float in the assembly that has grown noticeably since it was last set
• Fretting, pitting or a bright polished witness mark found on the shim faces at inspection
• A shim found cracked, dished or distorted on strip-down

🛠️ Service Notes

• Shims are supplied in graded thicknesses and exist to bring a setting into specification, so measure with a micrometer and select the thickness the setting procedure for your engine calls for rather than matching one by eye
• Note which shim came from which position on removal and keep them identified — once an assembly has bedded in, shims are not interchangeable between positions
• Check both faces are clean, flat and free of burrs, corrosion and old sealant before fitting; dirt trapped under a shim shifts the setting as surely as the wrong thickness does
• Discard any shim that is dished, cracked, pitted or fretted rather than reusing it, and make sure no old shim has been left behind in the recess
• Recheck the clearance or setting after the assembly is tightened down, because clamping load can change the measurement you took loose

📦 Condition

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