how far off were you Joel ?

Before and after:

I made a heavy duty work stand to straighten rear ends and shorten them. To straighten them I use a 1.5" tri bar run thru the housing with bushings where the bearings are. Working on one end I slide the bushing out and use a hyd jack to move the housing where the bushing will side in. This takes some time to get just rite. When I shorten a rear end I make sure the ends are square as I'm welding them. After all the welding is done I straighten the housing. I have rebuilt and straightened several rear ends and only one housing did not need straightening.

Convx4, that is a really nice jig! I’m embarrassed to show the makeshift jig I cobbled together.

But it worked.

I used a 20 ton bottle jack and a torch to straighten the D60 tubes. Now I need to cut one housing end off and weld a Moser end on. The bearing bore diameter of the Moser ends are too tight to slide a bearing race so I’ll have to address that before welding them on.

Thanks for all the input and recommendations.