8 3/4 vs Dana 60

I am only going by what the axle manufacturers are telling me. I do not make the bearings or the axles. It is best to use the manufacturer recommendations, not some urban legend or backyard engineers opinion. By the way Moser makes a "circle track" axle and is uses, you guest it, a tapered bearing. This is not an ego thing so don't make it one. And you are not going to die if you lose an axle bearing. It will howl like hell before it completely dies.