Upon further inspection, I found where the tick is coming from. I open the hood at idle while it was ticking badly, and couldnt quite place it. Laying down next to the car, the noise sounded like it was coming from either the back of the oil pan, or the torque converter. There isn't a TC cover on right now, and it sounded like the tick was coming at me from the flexplate to TC. Hard to tell though. I need to pick up a stethoscope to tell which is emitting the noise..

The tranny vibrates rather badly in 3rd.. Hmmm.