Pulsar CV clickety-click.

Our old dray '97 pulsar, >200,000km is making a clickety click CV sound, at wheel rotation speed - not loud, but I notice it.Problem is it's only making the noise with steering straight ahead under very light acceleration.I pulled it to bits this morning, incl. replacing perished steering rack boots and pulling/refitting the noisy axle, but everything seemed okay, bearings, brakes, all ball joints good as gold. (yes - I checked for something stuck in tyres, and the wheel nuts weren't loose).I did replace outer CV boots a couple of years ago, but if outer CVs were the problem, I'd have expected the noise when turning - but it's dead quiet.Could a failing inner CV cause this symptom!Any other suggestions!

hard to say did you check the shaft for rotational play !

Only by grabbing each end and twisting, rotating the CVs, extending, everything seemed tight/smooth/good.I can't get a sound out of it rotating the wheel and turning lock to lock (while the disk was off).
If it was the car I used, then I think I'd forgetaboutit - deal to it only if it gets worse, but I'm not the usual driver, and stuff like that makes me a bit nervous.

rotate the shaft with wheel on ground to find play and then jack the wheel up and rotate it again to check the inner joint. Do you get what i mean!

knocking noises also sometimes come from brake pads when the anti rattle spring is broken for example that be more like nock nock noise intermittend

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Yep I think I get what you mean.I'm thinking the CVs are okay.
It could be just the brake pads - I've still got the springs in (god knows how I haven't lost the little swines - they've got a knack of flying off into the distance when you least expect), but they're still a bit rattly.
The disks are new-ish.These cars (CJ1 Pulsar) are severely under-braked, small disks, auto trans, but they seat 5.The old disks ended up with radial cracks across the face from overheating - this from normal runabout use on hilly terrain, not laps of some track.