Carrier bearing issues

I was taking the transmision out of my truck yesterday and found the carrirer rubbed out on the bottom. I'm fairly sure that its from the rearend pulling the driveline down when lifted. I'm curious to know what some of you have done to fix/remedy issues you've had with your carrier bearing doing this? I found speedsters in line slip joint on his backhalf project, an I'm a lil curious to know how beefy that is?

i put a new one in

Awesome. I drove around for almost 2 months with 1 bolt holding in carrier bearing until the damn thing just about snapped off when it started squealing like mad driving home from work.