Thread: Radiator fluid leaking from top screw mount for fan cover.

same here, new rad and then leaks from here, rubbish design but the mechanic fixed by putting some "stuff"in the hole and no leaks since.

No biggie...

Plenty of engines have "wet studs"

Just put some sealant on it and your done.

Wow,8 answers already thanks for the response guys,no one in the land rover community is left alone after all

Barney2803
The hose and the connection are (still) OME but i'll replace it with a rubber hose ASAP.

alpick
The disco is 2002 MY,vin 2A built late 2001,euro 3(did have cat and water cooled EGR,didn't have CDL internals)
Cheers.

I had the same problem and drafted the following letter to Land Rover. I never sent it.

Dear 4x4 Wannabees

I have just become the proud owner of a 2002 Land Rover Discovery and have found a small leak from the radiator; where fan shroud is attached to the radiator by having a screw through the shroud and into the radiator end tank. No, you have not misread my first statement and no, that arrangement is not an amateur repair job – it is the way some moron at Land Rover designed it.

When I discovered that the self tapping screw in the end of my radiator is a factory fitment, I could not believe it. I was astounded, I was gobsmacked, I said to myself; “they’ve got to be ****ting me”.

In case you have not grasped the idea that driving a rustable metal screw into a plastic part, containing high pressure hot water, is just asking for a leak; let me put it this way: you don’t attach the fuel tank by banging nails through it and into the bottom of the car, do you?

How in the name of all that is holy, do you expect to retain any credibility as the manufacturer of the best 4 x 4 by far, if you resort to such penny pinching stupidity?

I am writing this letter equally to vent my incredulous frustration and to help you design a better motor car. This is my third Land Rover and I still love it; I just wish I was not deeply embarrassed whenever its reliability and engineering are compared to its Japanese competitors.

May I suggest that you line up your design and quality assurance engineers, hang them up by their thumbs and shoot them. Then you should hire an 80 year old farmer and a 12 year old school boy to test your next machine; they will have a better blend of new ideas and common sense than the half-baked nincompoops who designed my last 3 Land Rovers.

Unless you want to write and apologise and offer me a replacement real, proper, metal, radiator, don’t bother. I do not want to hear how many of your satisfied customers have not complained. The evidence of poor design and shoddy parts, is in your competitors soaring sales.

Yours really sincerely

So, Bilbo, to sum up, their designs are so poor you've bought three of them?


They may not be so worried about losing customers if they're all like you

I would have sent it, less the details about it being your third Landy

Thanks for the post, something to keep in mind- I replaced that OME return hose as it had lost all flexibilty with another OME as it was less than $30 (its quite soft and flexilble) and kept the old one as a spare.
Steve

Bilbo, I certainly wished you had sent that letter to Solihull. Those were my exact sentiments after discovering two threaded metal screws penetrating my plastic radiator tanks....courtesy of an LR engineer. The left one started leaking this am and I think I may have resolved the problem by forcing "JB Weld" into the screw hole.
Very, very poor design work indeed...not the least bit thought out. Upon discovering the childish work, I first laughed...then I started swearing......