No, no needle bearing was changed in my go- through. I will take a look at the manual and see if I can find any other seals and what has to be done to get them R&R'd. Been a long, long time since I was in one of those drives and while my memory is like a bear trap, it is getting to be an old, rusty bear trap and not to be trusted. We age like bread and get stale and moldy, not a fine wine.
Just my personal opinion but doing a job like this I would try to replace all seals while in there. This is one of those high labor, low parts cost jobs so what I call 'shotgunning' works best for me (replace all soft, wear parts without regard to how they seem to be).