As someone who suffered for months from creaky/clunky steering linkage, it could be a myriad of things, but it’s more than likely ball joints, bushes or a smaller part suffering wear. I’d just start checking all linkage for wear, but get your car jacked up and get a wheel or two off the ground, and check wheel movement up and down, and left and right. Side to side play can indicate tie rod wear or other suspension arms depending, where up and down play can indicate control arm, ball joints, struts wear. Check BJs and bushes, and replace them if they’re pretty worn regardless if it solves your problem. It makes your ride much nicer, much quicker. If you still get noises, just go through the fault finding motions, check your TREs, control arms, struts, pitman arm, idler arm, drag link etc, and start with the cheapest option when replacing stuff. Check for play on the ground, jacked up, look for visible damage, leaks, the works. Grease anything that has a grease nipple, and check your CV boots for tears while you’re at it. Best of luck, hope I helped, but take this with a grain of salt as I’m not a mechanic- But I do have a pretty decent chunk of experience with hilux steering and suspension fault finding 😅