If there’s a spring loaded tensioner for the belt, then no. But I can tell you what might have happened. When bearings are imposed under a side load as from a belt, they stay pretty happy. It’s when this side load is removed, and then the bearing rotates from installing the new belt, the bearing rollers/balls move to a different position when the side load is reimposed. And this can make the bearing very unhappy, and it fails.
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