Truck feel like its pulling something dont if 4x4 is on

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I have a 1996 Ford Explorer 5 speed six cylinder 4 wheel drive feels like when I put on a gas is losing powers ... How to pull right rotor off a B2600 mazda 4x4.

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Here's a link on your 4x4.Very interesting.

your parking brake shoe could be sticking on ur rear wheels

check your brakes first. the calipers may be sticking and or the brakes are well worn too

its the right front wheel bearing i had this problem about a month ago

Try jacking up one side of the front and putting it on a jackstand. Then turn key on(but dont start it) and put it in 4hi. Try to spin the tire in the air. The drive shaft should not turn nor the wheel. If the wheel does then maybe the acuator is not moving in the axle. It worked when you pulled it out but it might be hanging up on something in the axle.

its your u joints, and if its a 4x4 change all of them

Ok lets start with is your truck a 4x4 or 2wheel drive? if a 4x4 check to see if your 4wd shifter didn't get knocked into neutral and that it is engaged properly in 2wd mode... if it is a pushbutton check that as well..

Does the Shifter Feel normal you feel it engage? if yes then you know shifter linkage is fine problem lies somewhere else..
Next when did this happen while driving did you hear a bang and then nothing?? maybe you Blew out the rear or boke a driveshaft. or Universal joint? this all will be noisy

or maybe you burned the clutch to the point it melted? it will stink badly and seem to linger forever in the air

has it sounded lateley noisier and noisier if so mabe throwout bearing burned up and broke something under the truck

please respond back with more detail and your findings

good luck

Yes, it's normal. Make sure you only engage it in 4x4 for tight turns if u are driving in snow, off road, ice, etc. The wheels are trying to turn the same revolutions, and of course the wheels on the inside of the turn have a much shorter distance to rotate than the wheels on the outside, that's why u feel the 'fighting something' u describe. On snow ice sand, there is slippage of the tires possible, on dry pavement there isn't, so u can damage the system (blow it) if u use 4x4 on dry pavement, because something has to 'give', and if it's not the tires slipping on the ice, sand, snow, it might be your system that gives, and that ain't cheap! So only use 4 Lock when necessary.

If the vehicle has rear drum brakes, I would check the adjustment on them, if they are too loose, this will cause the brake pedal to go down low.