how do u tell if ur stall locks-up or not thanks guys

 

Thats easy. To the layperson however, it can easily be mistaken as what feels like another upshift. If your car is tuned properly, around 48 mph at normal driving you should feel the car "bog" as if its shifting, and you'll see the tach drop to anything from 1400 to 2000 rpms, depending on what type of gears you have. When this happens, if you slowly lay into the gas and the rpms raise in a linear fashion (linear is the key) with regards to engine speed (think of a linear graph of RPMs and MPH), your converter is locked. A good rule of thumb is this: if you have a car with a 2.73 rear and you are driving at 60 mph, your tach should read 1500 rpms if you are driving with normal throttle and a locked converter. If you have a 3.42 rear and you are driving at 60 mph, your tach should read about 2000 rpms if you are driving with normal throttle and a locked converter. Hope that helped you out.

 

thanks man that helped alot..

 

Find out what mph your converter is set to lock up at and once you hit that mph under light throttle you will notice your rpm's drop almost like you have a 5th gear.

 

yeah under light throttle it should noticably make the car speed up more quickly when it locks and +2 on the 3.42 gear 2000 rpm at 60mph ..dead on