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I have seen bearing failures and packed many sets of bearing over the years. A good service centers tech should be able to identify what is causing the bearing failure. Low quality bearings is a possible cause. Timken has a helpful visual guide on how to identify the cause of bearing failures. Google tapered roller bearing failure for an online guide at Timken. Depending on the training level of the service technicians and damage to the bearings they may or may not be able to answer the bearing failure question. The most common cause of low mileage bearing failures after lack of Lube was improper preload being applied to the bearing and or the lack of backing off the preload as specified by Dexter axles. If the preload was not correctly completed it may show as damage on the other axles bearings. I would ask the service tech to explain the preload procedure they use or ask they follow the Dexter axle or Timken preload setting recommendations.
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