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How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? #3005302
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Hi, I recently swapped a 47rh transmission into my '93 Dodge 1 ton, behind the Cummins. So now I have a lockup torque converter. I am operating it with a toggle switch on the dash. I thought that would be no problem but I ran into a situation where it was. Somebody pulled out on me when I was doing about 60 MPH and I had to do a panic stop. Jamming the brakes, steering the truck, just paying attention to what was going on, I didn't hit the switch to unlock the converter and it pulled the motor way down. It was like driving a manual transmission truck and not stepping on the clutch.
I have heard that there is a way to wire a pressure switch in series with the toggle switch so that the torque converter will unlock at a certain mile per hour.
Can anyone clue me in on what switch to get, and where to screw it into the transmission? Thanks, Joel


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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Hemi_Joel] #3005303
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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Hemi_Joel] #3005325
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Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
Hi, I recently swapped a 47rh transmission into my '93 Dodge 1 ton, behind the Cummins. So now I have a lockup torque converter. I am operating it with a toggle switch on the dash. I thought that would be no problem but I ran into a situation where it was. Somebody pulled out on me when I was doing about 60 MPH and I had to do a panic stop. Jamming the brakes, steering the truck, just paying attention to what was going on, I didn't hit the switch to unlock the converter and it pulled the motor way down. It was like driving a manual transmission truck and not stepping on the clutch.
I have heard that there is a way to wire a pressure switch in series with the toggle switch so that the torque converter will unlock at a certain mile per hour.
Can anyone clue me in on what switch to get, and where to screw it into the transmission? Thanks, Joel


It takes some work and I don't have the info on hand anymore but I used two adjustable Hobbs switches, one low pressure and one high pressure, two different part numbers because the adjustment range isn't that great. The low pressure is for unlock and the high pressure is for lock. If you don't have two switches the O/D will hunt at the set point, really annoying. I wired them with two relays so the low pressure switch closes but the ground goes through the high pressure relay so it doesn't engage until the high pressure switch is closed. The low pressure switch relay latches the high pressure switch relay closed until the low pressure switch opens and releases the relay. I ran the whole mess through the O/D driver in the PCM through another relay so as not to burn the PCM driver out and L/U only works in O/D. There is no way to separate it in the PCM. Mine works like factory, locks up at about 47 and unlocks at about 42. It will even kickdown.
The port you need is at the back of the main case on the right side, opposite the rear cooler line.
The switches in the stumped ones link didn't work for me as the governor pressures on the diesel are much higher. Gas models are typically 1 psi per MPH but mine had 60 psi at 30 or so MPH and over 90 at 60. You will need a pressure gauge to check what your governor pressures are at the speeds you want to lock and unlock, then order your switches based on that.
If I come across the wiring schematic I'll post it, but lord knows where it is now.


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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Guitar Jones] #3005331
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Well it's not on my PC, I didn't think it was, so it's on paper somewhere.
Alternatively you could splice your lockup toggle switch ground into the O/D ground wire to the PCM. That way when the trans comes out of O/D it will unlock the converter as well. I would run it through a relay though just to be sure you don't burn the driver out in the PCM. Blue wire is ignition hot, orange with tracer (blue or white, I forget which and I'm color blind so keep that in mind laugh2) is the ground.
Edit; the O/D kicks out at about 30 mph which is too low for the L/U clutch to be on, but it would at least unlock it before the trans downshifts into 1st.

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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Guitar Jones] #3005352
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Here's what I did for my 46RH

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518 Control

Completely automatic, wanted my daughter to be able to drive it.

The control module automatically turns on/off the overdrive and lock-up for the transmission.

The 518 (46RH) is hydraulically controlled and uses 2 servos to enable the OD and LU.
The 3-pin connector on the transmission supplies the control voltages.
The center pin always has 12V power connected. The 2 outer pins are switched grounds. The front pin is the OD ground, the rear pin is the LU ground.

The module works according to the following sequence.
1) The 12V toggle switch supplies voltage to the relays and transmission center pin.
2) When the hydraulic pressure trips (50mph/adjustable) the pressure switch, ground is supplied to the vacuum switch. When speed is below 50mph, hydraulic switch opens, disabling OD.
3) When there is enough vacuum, the vacuum switch closes, providing the OD relay ground. Under heavy acceleration, vacuum drops, opens switch, OD is disabled.
4) When OD relay has ground and 12V, it waits 10sec, then supplies 12V to the LU relay and ground to the transmission OD pin, enabling OD.
5) Now the LU relay has 12V, it's already grounded. It waits the 10 sec programmable delay then provides ground to the transmission LU pin. So lock up doesn't occur until OD has been enabled and on for 10sec.
6) The programmable delays for both relays fix the situation when speed is fluctuating around 50mph. This would normally cause the OD to kick on/off, the 10 sec (programmable) delay stops this from happening.

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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: BDW] #3005423
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Diesels don't make vacuum, 50 psi of governor pressure is about 20 mph in a diesel and he already has O/D control in the pcm with a dash button to turn it off. I did find this adjustable fuel pressure switch at summit. Don't know how well it would hold up to ATF though.
Summit pressure switch

I remember having a hard time finding correct pressure switches and ended up actually talking to a Honeywell rep on the phone to get the correct part numbers. I don't remember where I purchased them from.


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Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Guitar Jones] #3005440
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Thanks for all the great information. I am not really needing full automatic control, I have been operating the overdrive with a toggle switch for years. In the occasional instances when I forget to switch off the overdrive, I have come to a complete stop, then got the truck rolling again with it overdrive. Then I notice it and hit the switch, but no real problem. Not so with the lock up. So I really need just a safety to disengage it if I forget, or in a panic stop. I think one of those adjustible pressure switches would do the trick.


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Have you looked into the compushift controller? Not cheap but another option.

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Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
Thanks for all the great information. I am not really needing full automatic control, I have been operating the overdrive with a toggle switch for years. In the occasional instances when I forget to switch off the overdrive, I have come to a complete stop, then got the truck rolling again with it overdrive. Then I notice it and hit the switch, but no real problem. Not so with the lock up. So I really need just a safety to disengage it if I forget, or in a panic stop. I think one of those adjustible pressure switches would do the trick.


Depending on how and where you drive just install a switch on the injection pump throttle lever.

Fully closed it opens the L/U circuit. Or something off the brake pedal.

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If you would have checked out the patc link they also have one for diesels.
https://transmissioncenter.net/shop...omputer-made-for-diesels-without-vacuum/

Re: How to control 47Rh lock up with a pressure switch? [Re: Guitar Jones] #3005507
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Originally Posted by Guitar Jones
Diesels don't make vacuum, 50 psi of governor pressure is about 20 mph in a diesel and he already has O/D control in the pcm with a dash button to turn it off. I did find this adjustable fuel pressure switch at summit. Don't know how well it would hold up to ATF though.
Summit pressure switch

I remember having a hard time finding correct pressure switches and ended up actually talking to a Honeywell rep on the phone to get the correct part numbers. I don't remember where I purchased them from.



Look for Hobbs Switches. W.W. Grainger used to have a bunch of different ones to choose from.


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some older car & trucks have a dual brake light switch, one opens when the brakes are pushed & unlocks the converter, the other turns on the brake lights


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Most of those old dual brake switches actually interrupted the cruise control and turned on the brake lights.

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Originally Posted by stumpy
Most of those old dual brake switches actually interrupted the cruise control and turned on the brake lights.


On all of the Chrysler vehicles in the 80’s up to the 90’s used the brake switch as an input, along with the N/S switch, VSS, TPS, battery (ambient temp) temp, coolant, trans temp, and some others. Depending on the algorithm, it controlled L/U, O/D.

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Originally Posted by stumpy
Most of those old dual brake switches actually interrupted the cruise control and turned on the brake lights.



that's what i was going to say. it unlatches the cruise unit, but i forget if it goes through the control on the turn signal stalk, or the unit itself under the hood.
would be a super easy thing to wire up.
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I would like the torque converter to stay locked up while I am using the exhaust brake, but still drop it out of overdrive if I choose to.
If I use the brake light switch, and I want to use the brakes and the exhaust brake simultaneously, that would unlock the converter and reduce the effectiveness of the exhaust brake. So that pressure switch would probably be the way to go. Once I get the truck down to 40 miles an hour or so, the exhaust brake probably isn't needed.
This truck is always very heavily loaded, with a big camper in the bed and/or my race trailer behind. So I actually prefer a mostly manual control so I can use my senses and my brain too make decisions rather than rely on an inflexible automatic device.

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Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
I would like the torque converter to stay locked up while I am using the exhaust brake, but still drop it out of overdrive if I choose to.
If I use the brake light switch, and I want to use the brakes and the exhaust brake simultaneously, that would unlock the converter and reduce the effectiveness of the exhaust brake. So that pressure switch would probably be the way to go. Once I get the truck down to 40 miles an hour or so, the exhaust brake probably isn't needed.
This truck is always very heavily loaded, with a big camper in the bed and/or my race trailer behind. So I actually prefer a mostly manual control so I can use my senses and my brain too make decisions rather than rely on an inflexible automatic device.


Yep I understand that, but I am going to add a brake switch on my Charger, but I dont have a Jake Brake smile


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Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
I would like the torque converter to stay locked up while I am using the exhaust brake, but still drop it out of overdrive if I choose to.
If I use the brake light switch, and I want to use the brakes and the exhaust brake simultaneously, that would unlock the converter and reduce the effectiveness of the exhaust brake. So that pressure switch would probably be the way to go. Once I get the truck down to 40 miles an hour or so, the exhaust brake probably isn't needed.
This truck is always very heavily loaded, with a big camper in the bed and/or my race trailer behind. So I actually prefer a mostly manual control so I can use my senses and my brain too make decisions rather than rely on an inflexible automatic device.

Great! I guess I don't have to feel bad for not finding the schematic then. laugh2


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Originally Posted by Hemi_Joel
I would like the torque converter to stay locked up while I am using the exhaust brake, but still drop it out of overdrive if I choose to.
If I use the brake light switch, and I want to use the brakes and the exhaust brake simultaneously, that would unlock the converter and reduce the effectiveness of the exhaust brake. So that pressure switch would probably be the way to go. Once I get the truck down to 40 miles an hour or so, the exhaust brake probably isn't needed.
This truck is always very heavily loaded, with a big camper in the bed and/or my race trailer behind. So I actually prefer a mostly manual control so I can use my senses and my brain too make decisions rather than rely on an inflexible automatic device.


If you are using a stock 47 and hauling all the weight using a Jake - you should consider some of the devices out there’s to crank throttle pressure/line pressure up.

Closed throttle will drop line to 60 +/- and using the Jake with a lot of weight can take it’s toll on the clutch’s.

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