No noises or anything and I only found the damage when I was stripping the front end out to replace the control arm bushes. Needless to say, as soon as I saw the state of them, I went online and found some new ones!!
Yeh, no shit, and those are FRONT to boot, not the rear....
that 1800 rpm bearing puller, I have cut the inner race off many a pinion by using a dremel cheepy cutter wheels on that then hit with a cold steel chisel and off it comes....
you fellows with a bearing press are lucky....I don't do enough of it do warrant having one, but I use a length of pipe and a hammer to tap them on again...