Looping Hicas Lines.....

[stÖrmy]

Just installed my hicas lock bar but having trouble identifying what lines to loop. long story short can i just cut the 2 lines here and connect them up? ive looked at the pics in the guides but honestly i cant see whats wat in them pics...

[GTSBoy]

Um.......there's 2 lines that come from the front of the car and connect to the rack at the rear. Connect one of the ones that comes from the front to the other one that comes from the front, and the job is done. FWIW, the photo you've attached looks to be the correct spot. Driver's side, forward of the rear subframe. But you don't "cut" anything. There's fittings right there.

[stÖrmy]

the lines in the photo are not at the rear subframe, they are at the front, driver side near the kframe. the fittings you see there, i had to remove and remove the lines from there rearward so the hicas rack could come out. the only lines left there are the ones infront of those fittings.

[GTSBoy]

OK, it's been a while since I looked at mine.  What fittings are visible at the lock solenoid closer to the rear subframe?<br /><br />Regardless, I think you can loop them at the front fittings.  Perhaps look here http://nissansilvia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=185697

It's a little different between the effort to loop them at the back (most people do this) and looping it at the front to remove all the HICAS pipework.

cheers

Edited December 27, 2011 by GTSBoy

[stÖrmy]

Yup i need to loop at the front as i removed all the rear hicas stuff and the lines. its just hard to tell what is what from the pictures in those guides because theres alot of lines under car and in the engine bay. will have another look tommorow

[stÖrmy]

think i got it now....pictures below.. look right?

First pic refering to :

If you look just in front of the engine cross member, you will see a few power steering lines (steel pipes). one of these goes into a high pressure fitting and then into the hicas solenoid. get a hacksaw and cut through this steel pipe, connect your hose onto it, hose clamp it and feed it up through the car.

Second pic refering to :

On the line that goes back the solenoid you will see a short ~15cm long moulded rubber hose held on with hose clamps. take this off and then put your other hose that you just put on from the bottom onto the aluminium pipe, not into the solenoid, then hose clamp it.