Bad center support bearing?

I noticed a strange noise comin from under my truck today..looked up under it and seen how much play was in the center support bearing. Has anybody else had the same issue? jw if its a common thing with 1st gen tacos

 

Are talking about the carrier bearing on the drive shaft. If so yes I just replaced mine..

 

ya its just another name for the carrier bearing. is it an act of congress to replace or pretty easy?

 

Can you define "strange noise" ? It's not uncommon that theres a little slop in the carrier bearing & still be good, is the rubber grommet torn or devoid of grease ?? need a little more info if ya can...

 

Easy to change. But as stated above whAt type of noise? May not be carrier bearing as the do have some play in them.

 

it sounds like when rubber is dried up and rubbing against somethin. the reason i believe its the carrier bearing is it has a pretty good amount of play in it. ima intern tech at a dealership so i put it on a lift and picked up the back tires up and put it in drive and it really started hollerin when i put the truck at about 1800 rpm. and the groument looks to have cracks in it but it was hard to tell

 

Install new u-joints, too by the sound of it.

 

i was thinkin about replacin the u joints to. i greased the u joints while i had it in the air. two of the u joints seemed to not need grease and two u joints was taking grease as fast as i could pull the handle on the grease gun,