I want to keep my Dana 60

I'm posting this and then I have to go out to a family thing. I'll check back in later tonight. I'm swapping from 1 project to another and carrying all my good parts including a dana 60 I narrowed to 47"s. The problem is I don't want to mini tub the new car so the rearend is too short. Has anyone run wheel spacers? I was going to run offset spring hangers so I could fit 8" wheels under the back. 2 1/2" spacers would put me back almost factory width. I'm a little leery of spacers. Any thoughts? I'll check back later tonight. Thanks, Russ