Will a 50.75" 8.75 flange to flange axle housing work?

TrailBeast said
This chart actually disagrees and has more what I was thinking in the first place.

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Damnit!!!

Every time I think this chart has died out someone brings it back. Trailbeast, I expect better from you. More than half of the dimensions on that chart are wrong. Some of them painfully so. I mean seriously, I know that YOU know there's more than two B-body axle widths.

Worst Mopar chart in the history of the internet. :BangHead:

The list you need is literally stickied at the top of this forum. An accurate 8 3/4" rear axle width list

cawcislo said
Looking to swap out the 8.25 axle for an 8.75 in my 70 duster. There's a 50.75" flange to flange shortened axle housing that I was looking at, but don't know if that would work. End goal would be to put some offset shackles in the rear but I don't want to do any mini tubs. Looking to go with aftermarket rear wilwood disc brakes. Would I be forced to go with expensive aftermarket offset wheels to counter the shortened axle, or would wheel spacers work? Or is there other options I'm not considering? Or should I save myself the hassle and look for a stock length A body housing? Thanks.

Your current 8.25" housing is 51.5" flange to flange, so as mentioned a 50.75" 8 3/4 isn't actually that different from what you have now. You'd lose 3/8" worth of clearance per side to the springs assuming you're going to run BBP axles. If you're going to run axles with the SBP flange offset, you'd actually lose .75" per side compared to your current rear axle because of the difference in the flange offset from BBP to SBP.

As far as wheel fit, you'd be looking at wheels with a 0 offset with BBP axles. So, if you're sticking with 15's back there then you shouldn't have a big problem finding wheels. The disk brakes tend to widen the track width a little too, so you'd make some of it up there.