The little oil filled radiator ...

[Zhastaph]

... mounted in the front skirt, just in front of the left hand wheel, it's leaking oil from one of the unions (the thread is poor where it screws into the rad).

Is it an oil cooler or part of the charge cooling system?

Oh and the car's a beautiful 2000MY v8 GT.

Many thanx guys

[paula&marcus]

Hi,
Its part of the oil-cooling system, of course.

BTW, your V8 does NOT have a c/cooling system !!!

Only the 4-cylinder Esprits SE,S300,S4,S4s and GT3 have a c/cooler.

Cheers
Marcus (www.PUKesprit.de)

[Zhastaph]

Cheers bud.

I've only had the car a week, so I'm still getting to know her. Just gotta slowly go round and sort all the little niggles. The last British built car I owned was a mini, it's reasurring to see that things haven't changed so much

[karmavore]

The same oil cooler is leaking on my S4. I'm going to try to pull it apart this weekend. I noticed that this has happened before in old service records from the PO.


Luke.

[igreenrover]

Chaps

I had to remove both front oil coolers on my 89SE early this year as part of restoration. On both sides the lower unions were corroded (being alloy coolers and plated steel unions) and sheared off the coolers despite a lot of care!

I tried all kind of places to get them fixed and even had some new alloy fittings made that could be welded back onto the coolers but in the end corrosion and weak plate-type construction made it impossible.

Eventualy had two new coolers (Got them from Lotus as price was about the same from the Manufacturer), but I had the pipe unions changed to Stainless steel ones so that I wont have the problem again!

Good luck!
Gareth