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My suggestion would that unless you see signs of a bearing failure or the pinion nut has backed of is to run it as is. The wear pattern on the gears still looks normal, no?

Recommend by Dana Spicer. This is very important because of you try to set a worn gear sets to new backlash values the tip of the tooth can bottom out in the root of other gear.

It is recommended when servicing worn gear sets to measure backlash prior to disassembly and reset to the previous backlash number, not the specified number.

There are two sets of numbers. The specification and the service limit. The 0.005-0.015 would be specification and is what you set the clearance to be when assembling. The service limit is the clearance when the assembly is considered worn out and should be removed from service. I don't know...