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Old 10-11-2023, 08:38 PM   #1
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Billet or OEM style carrier bearing??

I am going to replace the carrier bearing on my two piece C10, is there any plus or minus to putting in a billet style bearing or would the factory style b better? What's your experiences?
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Old 10-11-2023, 09:21 PM   #2
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Re: Billet or OEM style carrier bearing??

I recently replaced the carrier on my two piece shaft with a stock style unit. If you go with one of those, I would suggest welding the base plate around the edge. These are normally just tacked on and tend to break free, leaving you with a floppy driveshaft. If you go with billet aftermarket, it has negligible fore/aft play so you will need to have a driveshaft with a slip yoke on the rear or else you are going to be hammering that poly mount every time your suspension travels. Either mount will get the job done if installed properly.
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Old 10-11-2023, 11:05 PM   #3
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Re: Billet or OEM style carrier bearing??

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I recently replaced the carrier on my two piece shaft with a stock style unit. If you go with one of those, I would suggest welding the base plate around the edge. These are normally just tacked on and tend to break free, leaving you with a floppy driveshaft. If you go with billet aftermarket, it has negligible fore/aft play so you will need to have a driveshaft with a slip yoke on the rear or else you are going to be hammering that poly mount every time your suspension travels. Either mount will get the job done if installed properly.
I really appreciate your response, I had totally decided to go with the billet one. I never gave thought to it not absorbing the suspension travel. I did buy both. I gotta really think on this one. Thanks again.
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Old 10-12-2023, 09:50 AM   #4
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Re: Billet or OEM style carrier bearing??

so ive boken many stock carrier bearings over the years, but then i did my ls swap, had my drive shaft shorted i asked the drive shaft shop the same question, he told me to runn the aftermarket billet bearing i would have to add a slip yoke into my drive shaft. he said the stock bearing as been around for years and the biggest reason they fail is the drive shaft is out of balance or when someone changed on they put the dirver shaft back together out of phase thus making it out of balance, i stock witht he stock bearing he blanced my whole drive shaft as one unit, its been 9 year not and ive yet to brake a stock carrier since then and i beat the daylights out of my c10 with ls swap
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