if it might be mesh noise, a radical approach would be remove grease, apply lapping compound, run it back and forth a few times, then throughly clean and grease.
were your new brass gears aquired through an auto parts distributer or a generic gear supplier. Maybe a common gear, say for the worm could be sourced in plastic.
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