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Originally Posted by leathermang
I think matching to the drive plate alone... leaving out the torque converter ... sounds funny....
Taking it to neutral and then hoping for the best is what it sounds like is happening.. ignoring the torque converter..
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The torque converter is a replaceable component in multiple varieties for various applications and likely to be altered/serviced/replaced during the cars life. Its unlikely something like that would be used to balance out the crank, especially during engine construction phase, vs the driven plate or harmonic balancer.
Unless you were doing this conversion, the driven plate is something that would not typically be removed or serviced while being directly bolted to the crank, so I figure MB engineers would be comfortable using it to make up a shortfall or something.
Who knows, we could go the other way and balance issues could also have been resolved up front on the harmonic balancer too, but match balancing is a pretty typical machine shop function, would not be hard to do it properly just in case. The majority would be neutrally balanced anyway