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Originally Posted by Ferr3t
Is there any way to tell when your torque converter has locked up, other than by "seat of the pants" feel?
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In my '98 CRV the seat of the pants method is actually pretty obvious. If you're trying to find the feel, I tend to dance with that when I'm climbing moderate grades at highway speeds. The engine jumps easily 500 rpm and gets noticably louder, and pulling back off the throttle quickly settles it back down again. The other place to look for it is coming up to speed on the highway. If you accelerate somewhat hard, the final shift into 4th will be followed shortly by one more "little" shift.
I would just play around with your driving a bit before adding more instrumentation though. I think being enamored with my ScanGuage is almost as dangerous as talking on a cell phone...