[Matt Monson]

Jerome,
Sorry if I was a bit hard on you. If you've witnessed the mechanic and his helpers not show compassion for your gearbox you do have grounds to be a bit miffed, though I still don't think they did this. They would have to be really shady people to do something like that (which would be impossible not to hear and feel) and not come to you and tell you that an incident occurred on a test drive. But that's not really the issue, so we should probably just lay it to rest.

I too noticed what Redbeard said about those not being dogteeth but didn't want to say anything until I could figure out what they are. I've been out in my garage looking through my pile of parts attempting to figure out what part has that sort of striping on it. I am at a loss. The first five are clearly different than #6.

And number six is even more confusing. On a porsche gearbox there are very few parts that would be hand etched with a number like that. Basically it's the gears themselves and the ring and pinion. That's because they match them all as pairs, plus the R/P has set up numbers and measurements written on it. But sliders or dogteeth or bearings or any other manner of parts only have stamped numbers on them. Never something hand written like that.

I am a bit at a loss here, but still think this box should come apart immediately. There's something very wrong inside of there that has just not let itself be known yet.