David, if you noise is associate with bumps, I've found lower front shock
mounting bolts not tight enough a few times, causing that symptom.  They
need to be really really tight.  Like 80 ft. lbs. - I don't know what
Bentley says, but I can tell you the lower front shock mounting bolts really
need to be creamed down.
Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David Clarkson
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:47 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Clunking sound

I had the exact same symptom and replaced the CV joints, transmission (for
other reasons) and rear wheel bearings and nothing has changed. I have been
living with the noise for 50k or more and think that I will look at the
trailing
 arm bushings since my problem is worse at slow speeds going over bumps. I
have  also replaced all of the shocks/struts as well. The noise does sound
like
a CV  joint noise but I even swapped out both sides after replacing with new
joints  just to absolutely rule out getting a bad joint in the same place.

David Clarkson
90 Westy (245k)

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