knocking in the RH wheel decelerating on an 89 Ford Festiva. Haynes manual says knock in wheel is worn inner CV joint or spline in differential.
(Says clicking is worn outer CV joint.) I've had the car up on jack stands a couple of times in the past few days since I heard the noise, rotating the axels by hand. No that I really know what I'm doing but the wheels do have some play in them when in gear but not at the differential end when I try rotating the CV dust cover. I don't know how much play the wheels are supposed to have in them when in gear.
I'm out of the work force and no longer commuting. Its a low milage car ,
101 km (60 k miles), and I put less than 3k km (2k miles) on the car per year. Don't drive it in winter. So its not like I have to rush into anything. If its the CV joints I'd like to try putting on rebuilt axels myself. Always nice to be able to take one's time with these things.