DEA Products DEA A6009 Drive Shaft Center Support

I have never changed a Carrier Bearing before but just based on some of the details I noticed while installing this one (rubber was not scored [cut] correctly near the bearing, bearing came apart while installing [but was able to be pressed back on and seems to be good so far) I would say that this bearing is good quality for the very modest price they are currently going for (around ~$20 compared to the much higher cost at brick and mortar repair stores or even other online sellers). I put it on over a weekend after doing my u-joints and noticing that my old bearing rubber donut was in rough shape and would warp my driveshaft it not replaced. Pretty easy install, took about a half hour once I got to working on it, you can either take it to a person with a press (in which case it may last a lil bit longer) or could probably get away with hammer+pipe method. I heard a slight squeaking the following weekend while driving through town, but it was hard to tell it this was the culprit or if it may have been the new u-joints, or maybe something different altogether (I drive a 2 decade old frontier, with the rust and wear, who knows...). If something happens Ill update this post but so far I am satisfied with my purchase. 4 stars because it is good bang for buck.

I was sent three bearings, all with damage. The first actually had a bad bearing that was entombed in the rubber. The bearing was so bad that got SUPER HOT after about 5 mins in the truck and caused the driveshaft to get hot. The second bearing i ordered had a flutter issue that was as bad as the annihilated bearing it was supposed to replace. the driveshaft just bounced around and vibrated horribly. Also, i confirmed this was not an out-of-alignment driveshaft since you have to split it to install this. I had the DS installed in the correct orientation. The third bearing had dents in the dist shield lips. I let this go since i needed the truck back on the road and i was tired of pulling it over and over again. The third bearing finally worked.Also none of them had enough clearance to use the stock dust seal lips. These little rubber rings that really seal out all the junk.I would recommend you order 3-4 of these bearings as its almost guaranteed that 2 are going to be unusable out of the box, and then just return them via amazon prime.

Worked, but bearing seal came off easily, and had to press it back on again. So far it has stayed together.

3 months in, and 7000 miles later it started squeaking again.

Received in prime time but the item looked defective and when we put the part on we was driving down the road it came apart. Should have just went to AutoZone.

Go oem these have been warranted twice both failed went oem works great

Bearing failed two months after install it's in two pieces need to order another going to go with a name brand that way I can get it one more time and not worry for several years

Fit was not exactly the same as OEM, but it works well enough. I am not too sure about the durability of the item, and only time will tell.