[TRADERMIKE 2012]

You said:

"You said you tested the car for a while after the trans. rebuild, so if the balancer is what made that noise from being cracked... logic & reason would say it should have done it right away on first start up."

Upon repairing the Trans. I was fighting the Modulator Issue. I was between the Modulator and Govenor or a number of other after build things that come up, especially being my first Trans. rebuild. I was concentrating Soley on the Trans. at that moment. As I passed the Trans. issue, that is found that the Modulator was the culprit, once repaired on testing and tuning for longer distances and moving faster than the Ghost noise reared its ugly face. Once we were driving at higher speeds on I-95 in south Florida this had everything to do with noticing the Ghost noise. First, we turned off the AC unit compressor to look for a difference in sound, but it was still there. Then we put some rubber between the Electric fan and the AC condenser unit, thinking it was the vibration and it was not. Then we did not use the AC at all, drove the vehicle with all Trans. issues resolved, but the vibration Ghost noise was still there. We pulled the Heads, good thing and finally found the smoking gun, the Harmonic Balancer is cracked!

I am not prepared to go any further than this, time to test and tune to see if I have found today's problem. As rite as everyone is that I should take the next step and go for the entire rebuild, I need to satisfy my curiosity to whether or not I have diagnosed the current problem. True I was told to rebuild the Trans. and I had to check out every other possibility first, and I mean I learned a lot and better understand Trans. 101 because of my diligence. Otherwise, how will I ever learn this mechanic stuff? Remember I am a student of Auto mechanics not a pro like some of you.