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Sounds like a wheel bearing is going out. Put your Explorer on a floor jack and raise the left front tire off the ground. Grab ahold of the tire and see if you can make it move any by pushing/pulling on the top side or bottom. Any play (movement) in the tire/wheel indicates a bearing might be out or on its way out. Is it a 4x4 or a 2X4?
Remove the bolt that runs thru the engines motor mounts, not the ones that attach it to the engine block. Take a 2x4 and put it on a floor jack so the jack won't damage the front pulley. Raise the engine with the floor jack to get enough clearance to manuver the pan around the steering components once thw oil pan bolts have been removed. Watch the fan blades don't hit the radiator.
the differential action means that the wheel with the least resistance will spin faster than the other. The other turn because of friction and fluid motion. Should you grab hold of the turning wheel then the other wheel will pick up speed and spin. The differential has nothing to do with stalling and engine performance problems
Run the fault codes and check for vacuum leaks especially in the vent controls under the dash and brake booster
I am going to assume you are raising the body with the jack. If so, you would have to raise the car most of the capacity of the jack ( 6 - 12 inches) to get the wheel off the ground. This is normal. If you have a floor jack you might be able to put it under the spindle that holds the hub bearing.
Yes that is normal for a front wheel drive vehicle. The power is applied to the wheel on the passenger side only until a given amount of wheel speed is obtained then the drivers side will spin at the same rate. Although if you raise the front of the vehicle and spin the tires by hand in neutral you should feel equal resistance. If the driver side wheel has excessive resistance to turning the wheel bearing may be to tight..
A bad wheel bearing noise will normally increase or roar loader with car speed but depends on how bad it is. If you turn momentary to the left or right while driving down the road say above 30 mph, the noise will change pitch either gettin loader or quieter. Locating the correct bearing to change can be tricky because sometimes it may sound like the left bearing but it can be the right. The best thing to do is to jack the car up on jackstands and get the wheels spinning and while spinning prob the hub area on the back side of the wheel with a mechanics stethoscope to pick up the sound. Placing the plastic end of a long screw driver against the ear while probing the inner hub with the other end works equally well for locating bearing noise. Compare the noise heard while spinning and the noisy one is the bad bearing. Do not spin the wheels fast while on jack stands or it could cause damage to the halfshafts (cv joints). Spinning the back wheels with be hard to do since there is no poweer to them. If they are bad enough, they will still make noise while someone is spinning them by hand. Most shops have a device for spinning the wheels.
RAISE TRUCK SAFELY, SUPPORT WITH JACK STANDS GRAB WHEEL TOP AND BOTTOM.TRY SHAKING THE WHEEL IF WHEEL MOVES WHEN YOU GBAB IT TOP AND BOTTOM. YOU HAVE A BAD WHEEL.IF WHEEL GOOD SOLID DONT MOVE.WHEEL CALIPER SEIZING UP.IF YOU SEE ABS WARNING LIGHT A FAULTY WHEEL SENSOR WILL CAUSE THE FRONT WHEEL LOCK UP.
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