when pulling the bolts from the pan take out a few on one side first... let her drain all she will and take a few out and keep doing that til the pan is off.... it'll be less messy that way.... i remember when i took a pan off the first time when i was 16... just undid it all, and then the gasket lost its grab and dumped a full load of tranny fluid on my face.... it took half an hour to get that off my face and a week to get it all the way from my hair