CV joints would be my best guess... and it's only a guess...

I'm assuming that this happens when you're traveling at high speed son the
highway or when traveling up hill.

I had the same thing happen to me on a long road trip through two mountains
passes between Seattle, WA and Sebastopol, CA.

You might want to look there...

Myles

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Norman Owen Tomalin
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:22 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: 1983.5 with 108,000 miles

My 1983.5 water cooled 1.9L Camper developed a regular progressively louder
knocking and vibration emanating from the vicinity of the left rear wheel.
Which disappeared when depressing the clutch pedal and was not a permanent
ailment.  A close look at that wheel assembly and down through the engine
access area revealed no obvious complaint.  Any suggestions as to where I
might look to find the source of this issue?

Norman Owen Tomalin
BRUCE COLEMAN INC.
117 East 24th Street
NEW YORK, NY 10010 USA
www.bciusa.com

norman@bciusa.com
Tel - 212-979-6252
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