Lmfao

 

timken or nothing...

 

Well, that leaves room for a ton of interpretation ...

I guess I will go with Timken.

 

just based of previous experiences. i bought non-timken wheel bearings once and they blew up 100 miles later.

 

skf oy koyo would both be fine also. Both are suppliers for OEM's. Koyo is from japan, very high quality, and so is SKF. National is fine also.
We actually carry Timken and SKF at freightliner. If they are ok for a 80k lb truck logging 1,000,000. miles than they are good enough for a jeep.

 

Same here. One of the SKF's I put in is on the way out right now, the other one was toast a couple of months ago. Timken, on the other hand, lasts.

 

I disagree, I feel SKF is high quality, as with many things from Japan. I wouldn't hesitate to run SKF on anything I own. But Timken is my 1st go to bearing

See above, they're good

Agreed, we used all these brands at Peterbilt when I worked there

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Some one mentioned set up bearings... you don't need them for the carrier on a ARB since the shims go on the outside of the carrier bearings. But because of this when I installed the ARB in my Dana 44 I found is necessary to use a case spreader to get the correct preload (by correct I mean by the book) Many (most) will argue a spreader is not needed. I disagree, and so does ARB.

If the shims were between the carrier and the carrier bearings I'd say you probably could get away with out one. It's just to easy to destroy your shims when trying to get the right preload without the spreader when the shims are on the outside.

Depending on how long the gears have been in your axle I'd go ahead and replace the pinion bearings and seal as well. It wouldn't be that much more work for the reassurance.

 

I work at a parts store and National is also the better brand of our two we sell. So i have only used National on everything I have done and never had a problem with them. If the others aren't available I guess..

 

If you think timken is made in america....better take another look at those bearings when you pull them out of the box. I see 50% marked INDIA.

I've used Timken, National, SKS, and Koyo. I've yet to have a failure of any of them.

The secret to a long bearing life is;
Proper Pre-load,
Regular maintenace of your axles.

 

Hahaha! Good one!

 

Granted I dont do this for a living, so you have probably seen way more bearings than I, but I have never seen a timkin say India on it. I grew up in a small town in rural Ohio, we had a massive timkin bearing factory there. To my knowledge, alot of their operations still go on there. But im sure they outsource, just like every company these days.