Inner CV joint going out.
Get a reman, axle from Autozone, about $60.

"Seraphim" <gme6@cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:Xns95032165A7227gme6cornelledu@132.236.56.8.. .
> I have a '90 Honda Accord with about 155,000 miles on it, and recently
> it started making a disturbing noise. I personally think it's the outer
> CV joint on the left-front wheel, but I'm not sure, so I figured I
> would describe my problem and ask for help.
>
> There are basically two symptoms.
> 1) If the car is taken on a long trip it will start to make a very
> quiet thumping noise at high speed, as the trip goes on the thump will
> get louder and louder to the point where it can be felt a little in the
> steering wheel. The noise is dependent on where the gas it. In the
> initial stages having my foot off the gas, or down a fair way will make
> it go away. At all stages pushing the clutch in will make the noise go
> away (Would a bearing do that? I figure the lack of force on the CV
> joint makes the problem go away).
> If the car is stopped (for gas or food or something), the noise goes
> away, but it'll go through the stages again. For short stops it doesn't
> take that long to get back where it was.
> Sometimes the noise will just stop at random, and again start to work
> it's way through the stages.
> 2) Sometimes when the car is making a very sharp right turn (as sharp
> as it can) it'll make a few very loud, regularly spaced, noises; these
> are similar to the noise the car makes under situation 1 when it has
> been driven for a long time.
>
> So my questions are:
> Is it a CV joint, a Bearing, or something else?
> How much should it cost to get repaired?
> How hard would it be to fix myself?
> Is this a "keep the car off the road" sort of problem? Or a "pay
> attention incase it gets worse" sort of problem?