400E,

Almost daily, I find another reason why I like living in the Southwest. I have to ask, does ATF fluid actually get thick up there in the winter?

I have a very early recollection of Shickley, Nebraska, southeast of Omaha, in the early '40s, where my great-grandmother's water pump bucket in her back yard had a skim of ice in June, but to me, thick ATF conjures up a vision of 'molasses in January'.