Well, I said freeze plug because in the pictures it appeared to be coming from inside the mounting plate. If it was coming from the other mentioned sources wouldn't you be able to see evidence of coolant leaking on the mounting plate instead of just at the bottom?

Basically correct. It certainly could come from the freeze plug at the back of the block (inside the bell housing). I am not discounting that at all.

However, he does not seem very familiar with automobiles (at least this one), since his inquiry was about "coolant leaking from the tranny". I am not quite prepared to accept that he's examined all the right places where an anti-freeze leak "could" come from.

His pictures don't show anything but the very bottom of the bell housing and oil pan, so, given the PITA it is to pull the trans just to look at the freeze plug; I suggested checking everywhere else first. A visual inspection may (or may not) save him some unnecessary work, and it costs little in time and zero in materials.

On my my car the coolant seeped from the very rear of the engine at the headgasket. As long as the engine was hot, the coolant just evaporated away. As the engine cooled it would puddle on the edge of the block, then run off onto lower parts of the car, and that is where I first noticed the leakage. The coolant cooled enough on it's journey to the bottom of the engine/trans that it was much more visable (stayed there in a liquid state) than at the source of the leak where it evaporated.

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ChrisA,

I don't ever intend to be rude to anyone, but your post is completely uncalled for. Read the last page of the Midwest thread yourself, dude. If you don't intend to hijack this thread, then don't.