Yes, a CV joint is a likely suspect. You can usually pull into an open
parking lot and do tight circles in each direction to determine for sure
what side the sound is coming from. You can get under the car and determine
even better by releasing the parking brake and rotating the wheels to hear
where the noise might be from, inn or outer joints.

If it is indeed the joints... I had a similar  sound some years ago that
plauged me for a long time. Nobody could find it. It went away when I
replaced the brake shoes.

Be sure that your wheel nuts are on tight! Been there and done that too.

Jim

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Sheilah Rogers <sheilah@sheilah.org>wrote:

> oh man, could i be getting into trouble here as i know next to nothing
> from you all on this list. BUT my 86 vanagon does this when i need a CV
> joint/boot(?) replaced/fixed/packed.
>
> s.
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Pat Patterson wrote:
>
> > I have a click click or clunk clunk type of noise that seems to be coming
> > from my right rear.  It comes and goes and sometimes is so loud I think I
> > better pull over while at other times there is no noise at all.  I have
> yet
> > to pull a wheel but the joints don't wiggle any and the brakes don't
> seem to
> > make any difference.  The noise is worse at slow and intermediate speeds
> > and goes away or is just not heard at high speeds.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks, Pat
> >
> > in SC near Charlotte NC
>