I'm from Chicago. When I pulled the pan there was some metal, not an obscene amount, but still enough to notice it. Whenever I started the car it would make a rattling noise coming from the converter. Occasionally I would go to acellerate and it would just buck (replaced TCC as well), definitly seemed like the converter. The tranny is a freddy brown rebuild from dynotech, still shifted strong at every point so I don't know what to do. Let me know what you think, thanks.