True, it could. I can't think of anything inside the diff that could cause this, except for bad bearings, which you would hear going down the road.

Another thought -- do the rear wheels hang roughly even with the car jacked up? If you have something going on with the suspension causing one side to extend more than the other, the drive axle on that side might bind more. They aren't made to work well at really extreme angles.

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