I have a couple of questions.
It was suggested by a friend the if I use the input shaft above I replace the helical gear from this shaft with the helical gear from the original shaft.
The reasoning being that gears that have spent 181,000 miles together were 'mated'.

If that is the case, would I also need to transfer all of this a swell?

One more thing. While digging through some old emails I found this.
Before disassembling, measure axial clearance
of spur gear for 1st, 2nd and 5th gears.
1st gear .... 0.10...0.30 mm (0.003937...0.01181in)
2nd gear ... 0.20...0.60 mm (0.007874...0.02362in)
5th gear .... 0.20...0.40 mm (0.007874...0.01575in)
Well clearly I forgot to do that and neither Clymer nor BMW manuals prompted me.
How badly have I screwed up?