You can also get a needle at your flaps with a zerk-like fitting that will
snap into your grease gun. Inject that sucker with grease from multiple
points. Also, a brake shoe will create a ruckus, but more of a clunk clunk
clunk that comes and goes than a vibration or a constant noise.

Jim

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote:

> Should be able to lube joints from the axle ends of the boots. Snake a
> grease gun in there; squeeze in a few strokes, and massage the boot to work
> grease into the joint. Noise will go away.  Plan on cleaning and relubing
> at your leisure.
>
> Karl Wolz
> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
>
> > On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:20 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Im asking for your opinions as to identify a bad CV joint.
> >
> > I had for sometime heard a little clunking back there, to the rear
> > passenger side of the vanagon. That clunking would come and go never bad,
> > or caused vibration or anything, It would appear and then simply vanish.
> >
> > Now this clunking is more of a ruckus since last week. I got stuck on a
> > slope over a sheet of ice. So I spun hard on the axles (or the one) due
> to
> > the sheet of ice. Last Friday coming home I heard the clunk, clunk at
> > highway speed with a particularly bad vibration.
> >
> > Had not driven the vanagon this weekend and on the way to work the clunk,
> > clunk was there as described from Friday.
> >
> > I had not seen any rips on the boots.
> >
> > 1) ANY chance a brake pad could cause the same?
> > 2) Does it sound to you guys that the axle is on the way out?
> > 3) One more think, In manual 85 GL vanagon tin tops are the axles the
> same
> > right and left?
> >
> > All this while it sucks to work on cars outside.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > T.
>