Honda 3.5 V6 Pilot Ridgeline Strawberry Milkshake Radiator Failure! How to Avoid it!

HOW TO AVOID the SMOD! (Strawberry Milkshake of Death)
Honda Ridgelines and Pilots from 2006-2008 are ticking time bombs.
The radiator has a heat exchanger with fittings that can fail and mix coolant and DW-1 Transmission fluid. This can contaminate the cooling system and ruin the expensive Transmission!
You can either Replace the Radiator, or be cheap like me and bypass the Heat Exchanger.