Lock Point

Nexus Series Firmware Help › Transmission › Torque ConverterUpdated Sep 2026

The Lock Point table is where you tell a Nexus when an automatic torque converter should lock up. It is a simple table with one behavior worth understanding before you change your gear settings.

What the table does

On an automatic with a lockup converter, locking the converter removes slip, which cuts heat and improves economy at cruise. The Torque Converter Lock Point table sets when the Nexus switches on the lock outputs to make that happen.

The logic is a comparison. The ECU looks up a value from this table and compares it against the Torque Converter Lock Point Variable, whatever channel you've chosen for it. When the variable rises above the table's result, the converter locks. That only happens if nothing in the Torque Converter Lock Settings is preventing it.

Minimum gear and the table axis

If Minimum Gear is set to 3, the converter can't lock in 1st or 2nd, so those gears don't need to appear on the table's gear axis at all. That keeps the table tidy.

The trap

The table doesn't extrapolate. If someone later lowers Minimum Gear to 2 but doesn't add a 2nd gear row, the ECU uses the nearest values it has, so 2nd gear would lock at the same point as 3rd. Whenever you change Minimum Gear, update the table axis too.

Our approach

Lock too early and the engine lugs; lock too late and you lose the benefit. Start conservative, log the lock state alongside RPM and throttle, and adjust from how it drives. Related settings: Unlock Point, Lock Duty Cycle, Dump Duty Cycle and the Torque Converter overview.