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  • 4 weeks later...

I just ordered one of those Tomei HICAS Lock Bars....I have been told it stiffens up the rear end (,gets rid of the HICAS dash light) and makes cornering more "driver controlled" ... is that right?

Also, is the power steering fluid reservior a smallish container next to the brake booster. And does it look like a small brake booster setup?. I'm asking because what ever that is, on my GTR, it has very dirty fluid in it and was wondering how I could drain it out to refill it?

cheers

Also, is the power steering fluid reservior a smallish container next to the brake booster. And does it look like a small brake booster setup?. I'm asking because what ever that is, on my GTR, it has very dirty fluid in it and was wondering how I could drain it out to refill it?

cheers

No that is for the clutch booster. The power steering reservoir is next to the air filter box in the engine bay.

ok.. so is this where you can loop it?? ts just on the RHS under the starter motor...where the fuel lines, etc go to the back of the car as well there is about 6 pipes going back there.

this is for R32 GTS-T but I assume its similar to GTR HICAS setup.

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Hey Gary, did you get a chance to take some pics of the loops at all?

Cheers

PS got my swaybars and alignment stuff on Friday, thanks

Hey Gary....picsorban....everyone is waiting...it sounds like the ideal setup...love some pictures to see what/how you did it....a picture tells 1000 words....it also saves a lot of typing.

The R32GTST is in the workshop in pieces, I will have to assemble the HICAS bypass to the suggested method. It is currently being modded to take a larger power steering cooler.

I am not in the workshop, I don't go there every day

There is no digital camera in the workshop, last time I took the digital camera to the workshop it got borrowed and dissappeard for 3 weeks. The time before that I went to take some photos and SOMEONE had let the batteries go flat. You know who you are.

There is no PC in the workshop and no internet connection.

When I am next in the workshop with a digital camera with good batteries, I will take some photos, then I will take the camera home, photoshop them, write some words on them and post them up.

In the interim .................. IT AIN'T THAT HARD.

Find the power steering cooler connections (there are only 2) and follow them. The outlet goes back to the reservoir, that is not hard to find. If you follow the other connection (that's the inlet) you will find that it goes to the HICAS solenoids. Remember which hose it is, I will call it hose #1.

Now follow the outlet pipework from the HICAS pump, that's the rear stage on the power steering pump. You will find it goes under the engine, and comes out near the HICAS solenoids. I will call that one hose #2.

Using a short (about 150 mm) long piece of rubber (low pressure ) power steeing hose join #1 to #2. Don't forget to use hose clamps.

All up it should take less than 10 minutes.

:P cheers :D

  • 2 weeks later...

From yet ANOTHER HICAS thread.................

I have marked up the HICAS schematic;

The Blue dot is the power steering cooler

The Red dots should be joined together, this bypasses the HICAS solenoids completely.

HICAS_Schematic_Bypass1.jpg

No cutting of pipes required, around those locations you will find the steel pipework has clamped rubber hose sections, just remove the (short) hoses and substitute them with the new (longer) piece of joining hose. If you are not removing the rest of the HICAs system, then block off the (no longer used) hoses to keep the crap out. There will be power steeing fluid trapped in the hoses, so make sure the capping is liquid proof.

:P cheers :)

Edited by Sydneykid
From yet ANOTHER HICAS thread.................

I have marked up the HICAS schematic;

How do the wheels return to 0 degrees on the '32 gtr system?

The diagram seems to imply that there is a spring, so that when the pump is not on, it will return to centre.

I am asking, because my gts4 has had the wires cut to the hicas unit, and somehow the rear wheels remain straight...

Perhaps my GTR is different, or I'm looking at the wrong pipes, because when I follow the piping from the rear stage of my PS pump I only see high pressure hose and screw on fittings?

Yes, that's correct, what else did you expect to see?

;) cheers :huh:

From reading this thread I was expecting to see a clamped rubber hose somewhere between the pump and HICAS solinoid, isn't that hose #2 from your previous post?

last time i looked there was a small giraffe eating a ham and pineapple pizza :mellow:

gurglr i think what sk is saying is that once you loop the line so it bypasses the hicas solenoid there is no pressure so no need to use pressure hose.

last time i looked there was a small giraffe eating a ham and pineapple pizza :D

gurglr i think what sk is saying is that once you loop the line so it bypasses the hicas solenoid there is no pressure so no need to use pressure hose.

Ok, but its pressure hose all the way from the pump to the HICAS solenoid.

Hose clamp fitting on the input to the cooler, hose #1, but where on hose #2 to join a low pressure hose and clamp?

Ok, but its pressure hose all the way from the pump to the HICAS solenoid.

Hose clamp fitting on the input to the cooler, hose #1, but where on hose #2 to join a low pressure hose and clamp?

if hose #2 = cooler outlet to solenoid, substitute that and run a low pressure one from the cooler outlet all the way to the reservoir. clamps are fine each end. use existing plumbing where you can. if you're saying that you have high pressure cooler outlet fittings maybe it is different.

if that doesn't make sense post up a couple of pics, maybe it is different.

mine runs pump>rack inlet>rack outlet>cooler> reservoir but it's a little different to the set up described here and has the 2nd stage removed.

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