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In any drive system, tooth mesh misalignment originates primarily from its torque transmitting components such as spline connections, gears, shafts, bearings and housing. The major influencing factors for tooth mesh misalignments are clearance between components, deflection, stiffness, thermal expansion, manufacturing limitations and assembly limitations. Tooth mesh misalignments in heavy duty off-highway applications like tractor, propagates drastically while handling severe loads and tends to shift the load distribution in a gear pair to an un-biased manner along the facewidth, resulting in high contact stresses and poor transmission performance. Misalignments definitely add few more decibels to the driveline system which will be an annoyance to the user. Moreover, mesh misalignments in any drive system cannot be eliminated and hence different approaches and methods were followed to compensate the misalignment.