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Originally Posted by Hammered 77
The carpet will definitely dampen the noise. The transmission housing resonates any noise it gets whether it's from the bearings, the gears or something else. Depending on how things heat up, I suppose the bearings could tighten up a little. If it's really only in 5th gear, I'd also look at the gear set. Again as it heats up the gear mesh will become tighter, and that will definitely affect noise.
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Thanks Hammered. I drove the truck about 16 miles in traffic, etc. so it had plenty of time to heat up. The noise occurs as soon as I go into 5th regardless of whether it was at the beginning or end of the drive. It just seems to "tone down" after I've been in 5th for a while.
I guess I'm just trying to explain it away as normal so I don't have to pull it back out, but it's not sounding like it
I could cover it up enough to drown out the noise and hope things don't explode or pull it back out and deal with it now.