Dorman vs Beck/Arnley Bearings - Quality Difference?

Hey All. Doing a bearing-cv-seals job on my 08, ordered some Assembled Beck Arnley hub and bearing units from Rock Auto. Fed ex lost the package for 2 weeks, so I tried to cancel the order and got some Dormans from Amazon. And then, of course, they found the order and shipped em and now I've got 4 bearings.
I'm thinking, just due to return policies, it makes the most sense to return the dormans and keep the Becks, but I'm wondering if there's a major quality difference between em. I suppose I could keep em as spares as well... there's only 160 000 km on the truck so theoretically I might need a new set in 5 years.

What say you all?

 

Depends just who made the bearings they might even be the same manufacture .

There should be a name on the bearing along with the number

 

This. Check to see the bearing manufacturer, any hobo joe can machine a hub, but to make a quality bearing is what will be the most concerning. You'll want OEM quality such as NSK, Koyo. Anything less and you'll be replacing them again in short order. Make sure to replace the steering knuckle seals and check the differential seals and replace if they are leaking.

 

What direction did you decide to go Huckin Grate ? About to do the same job and will order either Dorman or Becks from RockAuto... Let me know what you found out about the bearings used in each - thanks!

 

Put on the Beck/Arles, just cause Rock auto woulda charged me 75$ to ship em back. With the units in hand, not much difference to the eye - they went on fine, doing fine now with a couple 1000km on em. I'll update the thread if they die early I guess. I believe the part number on the bearing itself was similar but not identical... don't remember for sure though.

 

Thanks for the update. I reached out to a moog vender, and got this reply regarding the Becks. Sounds promising, but not sure I am convinced they are actually OEM...

 

Actually you just jogged my memory : I had a pair of moog bearing, just the bearings on hand from Amazon, where they were marketed as though they were a full assembly. Had planned on getting em pressed into my hubs but my hubs were rusted all to hell.
So when I got the becks in hand, I was comparing part number from the Moog bearing to the ones that came in the becks, not to the ones from Dorman. And numbers were similar codes but not exact. So that story sorta checks out.