8 3/4 is this correct

Ok turbo, slow down. I know exactly how green bearing work, which is why I don't run them. I run OE style, tapered bearings with adjusters on all of my cars and have adjusted end play on all of them. I am plenty aware of what can and can't be done with the adjusters.

The axle housing in question is an ORIGINAL A-body 8 3/4. There's nothing to indicate it was anything other than a factory axle, and nothing else from the factory is even close to the A-body width. Which means, it's an A-body axle. You have to realize then that means it came from the factory with tapered bearings and adjusters right? And that it worked just fine for decades with that set up before you decided it wouldn't work with tapered bearings?

The axle length was measured with a tape measure, which is a heck of a lot less accurate than the jigs the factory used. It's just a factory axle that's more than likely well within the factory tolerances.
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Pardon my ignorance. Until you said it was an original housing nowhere else in the thread was that stated. That is why I questioned if he had one axle slightly longer than the other . Especially with the nice grinding marks on the axle tubes it would be hard to determine that it was or was not a cut down housing.
Nowhere did I say he could not run tapered bearings. Don't know where you got that from.
Personally I prefer the tapered bearings over the roller. I know Ford used them for years blah blah blah.
All 8 3/4 use an adjuster on them with tapered bearings from the factory. So I guess you could say yes I understand that.
Thank you for your helping me to clarify what I said.