'95 Explorer has Burning Smell by Front Drivers Side...

If it smells like burning leaves, it's probably a few of them laying up against the heat sink inside the air duct system. What does it smell like to you? (teen spirit?) ;-)

dave

Hmm...could be anything. Some things I would check:

• Are you leaking anything onto an exhaust pipe?
• Did you pick up anything on the road that stuck to the exhaust? One time (in a different car) I ran over a plastic grocery bag, and it melted onto my catalytic converter. Every time the engine warmed up, it stank of burning plastic! I tried, unsucessfully, to scrape it off the converter. Eventually I replaced the converter to get rid of the smell. Now I avoid grocery bags as if they contain explosives.
• Do you park your Explorer outside? Perhaps an animal used it for a nest, and is now deceased...and fragrant...and contacting the exhaust.

I think that you pretty much have to have a look under there. If you see nothing, start the engine and watch for leaks. Good luck!

Kevin