A method for adjusting a backlash in a gear transmission, in particular for balancing shafts of internal combustion engines

For a transmission, in particular for balancing shafts of internal combustion engines, with an axially displaceable for adjusting a backlash gear, the invention proposes that an interlocking between the tooth flanks of teeth of meshing gears is removably arranged intermediate position of adjustment of the backlash, wherein by means of a predetermined force to a another gear sliding gear, the intermediate layer is arranged without clearance between corresponding tooth flanks of the gears.