Weird noise

[trdunsworth]

I have a 98 Eddie Bauer edition Explorer. Got it in April from Texas and it's really never seen the cold. It's starting, in colder mornings, to have a squealing noise which starts out when I first start driving it, if I back off the accelerator, it drops off and then it stops after the car's been running a while. Not sure what it is. Many theories abound, bearings, breaks, belts, anybody out here have this before and can answer?

 

[jeremyc653]

sounds like belts but id think it could just be from the cold

 

[96eb96]

I have a 98 Eddie Bauer edition Explorer. Got it in April from Texas and it's really never seen the cold. It's starting, in colder mornings, to have a squealing noise which starts out when I first start driving it, if I back off the accelerator, it drops off and then it stops after the car's been running a while. Not sure what it is. Many theories abound, bearings, breaks, belts, anybody out here have this before and can answer?

could be a pulley going south. Take off your belt when its cold and spin all the pulleys.

Not a bad idea to change the idler and tensioner pulley as preventive maintenance, there are random cases where they go bad and leave you stranded.