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Hey i've searched around and found Hicas removal for GTR etc, but nothing specific to cefiro, 32 etc.

I'm in the process of removing my hicas lines, as i've had a lock bar fitted and blocked up the lines, and since then i've done a rear cradle swap also. so basically i want all the lines gone completely.

Started by removing all the plenum etc, to make life a bit easier.

1 - Start off with a pic of the hicas unit in the engine bay.

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2 - Next there are 4 lines going into this one area, what is this going into? is it the steering rack (i've read that the hicas has nothing to do with the steering rack in other threads).

Can i simply undo all 4 of these and put bolts in them to block them up?

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3 - This is how my hicas has been blocked off for the past 2years. I'm wanting to remove all the lines completely.

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4 - Following the blocked lines up toward the engine bay, i came across this joiner/block with the lines running into it. What does this do and once again is it simply a case of removing it.

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5 - Up further from this joiner/block the 2 rear lines go into this spot where the 2 lines from the hicas unit go into also (same part as pic #2). once again - simply remove and block up with bolts?

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6 - Back in the engine bay i've now got the hicas unit again. the front line in this pic runs down the front of the crossmember and into the rear of the power steering pump.

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7 - At the rear of the power steering pump is the hicas line. Can i remove the line, remove the pump's wheel (HOW DO I DO THIS???), and block up with a bolt?

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Thanks again for your help it is EXTREMELY APPRECIATED!!!

cheers

-Matt

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2- Four hicas lines on the steering rack, this is simply a connection point for the hicas lines, you don't even need to plug them up, just remove the lines connected.

4 - Trace the lines from where you have blocked them right up to where they connect to the steering rack, removing any connection block things along the way

5 - Same picture as 2? Just remove those 4 lines, I don't think you can remove the block. Also, that looks freaky with the guy in the background of the photo.

6 - Should only have 2 lines left at the hicas unit now, 1 is supply from the pump (high pressure hose) and one is return to the reservoir (rubber hose with clamps). Remove the hicas unit.

You have a couple options with the hoses.

You can disassemble the P/S pump and remove the internals to the hicas side and plug the outlet, you will also need to plug the hicas return on the reservoir

Or, what I did was get a power steering cooler off an R32 and using the old hoses from my hicas removal, piped it up between the spare outlet on the pump and the spare inlet on the reservoir.

Yeah, the simplest option in regard to piping is a non hicas pump and reservoir.

But you would have to go to the effort of replacing your pump and reservoir, and buying them (money).

As simon-ae86 said, the cooler offers more reliability, plus you don't have to pull your pump apart or replace anything.

5 - Same picture as 2? Just remove those 4 lines, I don't think you can remove the block. Also, that looks freaky with the guy in the background of the photo.

I know nothing.

Have you got the spare pump huddy????

See you Monday.

Oh and congrats on 5 yrs mate.

Edited by 32 4whore

"Charlie! We're gonna go on an adventure, Charlie!"

......

I was mid way through my engine conversion when I did my hicas removal. But the power steering stopped working, turns out the pump was rooted, but I thought I had stuffed up the hicas removal somehow.

Just make sure you don't run the engine without power steering fluid in the reservoir.

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