So I bought an 8.75" B body housing, axles and perches for $200...

Out here in Nevad= It costs $400 or more to get housing
narrowed down plus the new ends.

Prices have gone absolutely Nuts!

And IIRC some reproduction ends are too shallow to use with tapered axle bearings, you have to swap to green bearings with most of them. Or re-use the factory ends.

exactly. thank you for articulating it in a more concise manner.

this day in age even finding somebody to respline axles is damn near impossible, let alone what they want to charge you for the work. better off just buying new units.

it's almost the same with C barge and truck/van axles. unless you can shorten them yourself, R&R the bearings and studs yourself by the time you buy the parts you're almost ahead getting a set of freshies.

Yeah by the time you ship the things to Moser and back to have them shortened and re-splined you could have just bought new ones from DoctorDiff and not have to worry about what those axles did for the last 50+ years.