I've replaced the wheel bearings in three of my cherokees. Never had this happen trying to remove wheel bearing to replace the axle shaft. Looks like I need new ones or has this happened to someone before and just put it back together?

I just did mine today, they had an etching on them saying "do not disassemble" – so my guess would be new ones.

Ya I was thinking it was a sealed bearing. There goes my winch fund.

Can I ask where u got yours and how much they were? I know I checked a while back and they were over a hundered apiece.

Sure can,
I got mine from Rockauto, Timken @ 79.99/piece + 7.65 in shipping and - 8.00 for a coupon I found online. Total was 160 bucks give or take a cent or two.

bennett auto 68 dollars in stock

That's not bad. 160 for both. That bennet auto was that for timken?

no but it gets ya back on the road been running mine for over a year no issues

Ended up getting timken bearings from jc whitney. Got them both for 143 shipped.