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Dear Murph,
Good p.m. and may this find you well. A strut housing - which includes the stub axle - can be had from www.bortonvolvo.com. Borton Volvo discounts. Even then, though, you're looking at a lot of money.
You can get one at a salvage yard, if there's one that will let you pick the donor car. So long as the front-end hasn't been creamed, the housing should be fine. These parts are very strong. Read on, to learn how I know this.
At 65 mph, my car hit a pavement step - a 3"-tall, unfeathered edge of newly-laid asphalt, facing on-coming traffic - which burst strut bearings, and caused the wheel bearings to mark the inner faces of the bearing races. The wheel bearings and the races that contain them - inside the hub - are very hard steel! The "safety engineer" on the project, an MIA, opined that he didn't see a 3" paving step - facing on-coming traffic, on a highway - as a problem!!
The moronic road-maker's insurance company paid for replacement of the entire front end (strut housings, struts, strut bearings, ball joints, hubs, wheels, tires, tie-rod ends, bushings, etc.).
While the strut housings weren't obviously damaged, I had them replaced, for fear that "down the road" they'd fail, at which point the repair cost would come out of my pocket.
Hope this helps.
Yours faithfully,
spook
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