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2002 2500hd Cc Lb Carrier Bearing


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The carrier bearing in my 2002 finally got so bad I decided to replace it. I went to advance auto parts and they had 2 in stock so I got one and removed my driveshafts and the bad bearing. It was completely shot, the rubber between the housing and the bearing was gone, it was just sorta flopping around there. After I got the old one pressed off I noticed something a little funny, the new one was way too small. It looked identical in every way ecept the I.D. for the bearing was 1.37 and the shaft is 1.575. Luckily my brother was nice enough to run me around to 4 different parts stores just to get the same info, they don't have one. I ended up buying one for a 97 K3500, it was much larger as far as being heavy duty than the one I had but the dimensions where the same and the bearing fit just nice however I had to cut the one rubber seal/flange(wasn't used anyway, maybe on a 97 it was) to keep it from rubbing the driveshaft but I would still like to try to find the one the goes on it. Has anyone else run into this problem with the long trucks? Is this a dealer only item? I would have checked the dealers but they close around here at 2pm on a saturday so I was in bad shape. I needed to make something work so thats what I did, maybe i should just leave it alone since it is so smooth now.

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