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Originally Posted by Christ
Not that I'd recommend it, but you could actually mill short-term use gears by hand (with a lathe and files).
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The difficult part though are the gear hubs. Splined on the output shaft cog, and freewheeling on the input side, with the synchro & sliding collar that have to fit the shifter fork. I suspect the actual making of the teeth for a "proof of concept" gear set is the easy part! Getting them on the shafts and making them "shift-able" is the challenge.
The other thing to consider in that arrangement is that if the test set of gears start to wear and shed filings into the oil, it'll accelerate wear through the rest of the transaxle.
Zero: sure, wouldn't hurt to ask. I've seen prices everywhere from $2k to $500-800.
Robert: the gears aren't simply swappable. EG: the small cog of the current 2nd gear set is actually integral to the input shaft. I would have sacrificed the input shaft to do the surgery to put the 5th gear hubs into the 2nd gears.