1973 Duster with make over

I dont have to much more info on shortening my axle housing. It was first one and was pretty simple and straight forward. I bought a 60" piece of 1.5" gtp steel round stock ( ground/turned/polished). I then had a local machine shop turned me down steel pucks that fit in the bearing race and had a inside diameter slightly larger than the bars diameter. I'm not a machinists but have a smithy lathe combo at my works sheet metal shop. The machine shop did a crappy job of making them so I had to make a few minor adjustments on the lathe at work. I cut right around 3" off the drivers side axle tube so another passenger side axle shaft would work in there. I had to use a ibeam and a jack to straighten the axle housing . Both tubes were over 1/4" off so I had to heat them and use the jack to get it close. Then once cooled I just used the jack to move them slightly. I then put the alignment bar in and tacked on the housing ends. I slid the bar out and used my tig welder and did a standard, root, filler, cover and then ground the welds smooth. After cooling the bar barely didn't go back in so I tweaked the housing again with the jack and ibeam. Got the bar to slide in smoothly. I now see you don't need a bar this long because you only do one side at a time.