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I was driving my car in a car park today and noticed that when I went around the bends my car was making a click click click noise, then on the straight it went away. My car is an R33 series 1 GTST Sedan Auto with HICAS. Do skylines with HICAS have CV joints? has anyone else had this kind of problem? I have done a search and I couldn't find anything relevent.

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I think people are confused by the fact that a lot of drive shaft joints on cars with Nissan independent suspension look very similar. Strictly speaking a CV (Constant Velocity) joint is used where the joint has to cope with both suspension and major steering movements - FWD cars in the main, GTR's have CV's in the outer joint of the front drivesshafts. The inner joint on GTR's and the joints on the rear shafts are known as 'Double Offset Joints' (DOJ) and are really only designed to take suspension movement.

Someone will jump in at this point and say 'but what about HICAS, which steers the rear wheels'. Well the steering movement on the rear wheels is only a few degrees max in either direction, and a DOJ is able to cope with that.

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Thanks for the indepth deicription Steve, I shall forward this on to him.

Cheers again.

Chris

BTW I think I have pinpointed it do to powersteering pump that is making the noise.

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