Boy, did I make a dumb mistake

[swervin ervin]

Coming home this evening, after looking at the van. I smelled something sweet a couple times, that smelled like antifreeze. I checked the gauge and all was fine. I thought it was another car or truck. So I kept driving. Anyway, I get home and pull my truck into the garage. About the same time, the wife pulls up coming home from work. She asks, what's leaking on your truck. I look and there is a stream of tranny fluid all the way up my drive. Damn. I open the hood and tranny fluid is everywhere. Start searching and it was coming from my B&M tranny cooler. No leaks at the fittings. I then look down through the hood latch hole in the core support. I had mounted it too high and the J hook (for a better word) had been hitting the cooler. Well it finally punched a hole in it. SOB, if it ain't one thing, it's twenty.

Well, at least it's tranny fluid and not oil. It will come off fairly easy. But, damn, it's a mess. I know when it finally punched through. I was at the lumber company right before I went to look at the van. As a matter of fact, the shop foreman was the one who told me about the van. They all was looking at my truck and wanted to see the engine. It wasn't leaking then. So, it happened somewhere between there and home. I don't think I damaged the tranny. At least I hope not anyway.