Cars, etc.

[Id_Jit]

Hmmm… Lock up torque converters…

With my wife’s GMC mini-van and previous Impala, I had a technique to get the torque converter to lock when I wanted it to as opposed to when it decided that it wished to.

The simple trick was to be in high gear above the lock up speed (45mph?) and simply ease off the throttle, then (not violently) get back into it after it locked. No tach in either vehicle, but you could *feel* it engage.

Outside temperatures weren’t a big problem with my experiences. My experience is once the vehicle’s heater actually delivers HOT air, the technique works.
Of course, the old Impala didn’t have a CPU, and I don’t know how much the ‘puter in the ’95 van controls the tranny.

Where I live, BD’s 20° F ain’t cold!

Id