Carrier bearing

[SAndreasen]

I replaced my 1995 carrier bearing around 20 years old. It was gritty and sloppy. I think the u-joints were still okay for a while, but I figured it was good preventive care to rebuild the whole two piece drive shaft. Took two tries for the parts house to get the right one. I had been pulling lots of heavy loads and it made me all warm and fuzzy inside before another 1200 mile toy hauler pull. My toy hauler weighed 18K or more. Smoothed the drive line up. I don't like waiting till failure, no fun in that. The greasable Moog joints looked more stout and weighed a bit more than the OEM. I doubt I'll change them again, the truck will be scrap before I wear them out. Couldn't get the spicer version, went all Moog. So far so good, I would guess the Spicer joints are Chinese too. Most things are, even an 18 speed Eaton is Chinese.

I always end up with one cap on a greasable Ujoint that won’t take grease and it eventually fails . I bought a sealed type from quad 4x4 not sure which ujoint or what truck it ended up on at the moment