Yeah, those are the only bearings I've had go out on me. A couple times the bearings literally fell out of the case when I removed the wheel hex to inspect. Obviously they went too long before replacement... but it was not very long.

I use the Avid revolution bearings for that application now, really nice bearings and their $1 a piece instead of $2.50 or whatever for the AE bearing.

This thing chews through wheel bearings like no other car I've had, AE should have gone a little bigger.

The rear diff bearings take a little more maintenance than the fronts do also probably because of more dirt getting thrown at them but they still last 5 times longer than the wheel bearings.

Kriostasis (sp??) has full AE bearing kits for like $15 or something, that's a deal if you want to stick with AE.
Correction, $18
http://kriostasis.com/store/index.ph...products_id=49