Removal Of Hicus R32 Gtst

[BANGN]

I just purchased this car a couple weeks ago and noticed a leak at the back of the car, well I got under the car today and found the hicus bar still there but NO hoses going to it, i tracked it down the line further and found the two lines from the front of the car had been cut halfway up and looped with a shitty arse peice of hose and some cable ties.. DODGY

well i hate hicus anyway so I was going to remove all the pipe work up to the fluid box in the engine bay and so I would like to know if I can unhook these two lines you see below (allready removed one bolt as you can see)

and just go and get some shorter height standard bolts and block the holes up?

or doing that stop flow to the front steering rack

Edited April 4, 2009 by BANGN

[QWK32]

you cant block both of the lines. one is for the power steering.

i've seen rb20's in other cars (vl's) that retain the r32 powersteering pump and what they did was get some fittings, or get a mobile hose fitter, to join the two output lines together to run the powersteering, all without a problem.

[BANGN]

both those lines go to the back of the car, the power steering rack has its own line out of the same box

or are you saying that one is an outlet and one is a return from the rear of the car which leads to the front rack, thus stoping the cycle to the front end?

Edited April 5, 2009 by BANGN

[NZM.031]

its a messed up bit of pipework if you ask me... i cant follow it.

one line goes to the back, one comes from the back, one line goes to the pump, one line goes to the cooler, one line comes from the cooler and goes back to the container. as far as i can tell anyway.

you can get an r31 p/s pump and get rid of all of the unwanted lines, without any need for a hose dude. one line coming from the container, one to the rack, one back from the rack.

[RBLUV]

the reason one goes to the cooler is because behind the aircon bottle in front of the condenser there are cooling lines for the hicas

[BANGN]

there is no cooler on the front of a gtst, it just goes to the front, does a loop and comes back into the bay, I can only asume the pipes get cool :S

as a temporary solution do you think my theory would work? i spose I could take it off, block those holes up, drop some fluid down it and see if it comes out the other side :S

[predator]

Rip that stupid thing out.. it just gets in the way of things, and weighs a bit too.

There are diagrams on the removing hicas thread (search, it's probably in tutorials).. you basically have to run a new hose from the front pipes/cooler, down to where it dips below to the steering rack. So it basically just retains the factory flow direction without the hicas. No need to change pumps. I did mine about 2 years ago once I locked out mine, been fine.

[RBLUV]

there is no cooler on the front of a gtst, it just goes to the front, does a loop and comes back into the bay, I can only asume the pipes get cool :S

as a temporary solution do you think my theory would work? i spose I could take it off, block those holes up, drop some fluid down it and see if it comes out the other side :S

i didnt say there was a 'cooler' the loop is a cooling LINE for the hicas system

[Ehgriez]

HI2U is correct. There is a metal cooling line on the front of the GTS-T.

I've heard stories of power steering fluid boiling out when people have cut this out of the system, how true that is I don't know.

I just removed the actuator and connected the line that was heading into the actuator to the cooling line instead.

Been going fine for a month now with no issues.

[fourdoorlove]

to eliminate my hicas problem, i went with the lockbar in the rear then changed my whole front end power steering setup

my rb20 had all the original pump and hicas lines etc, so i removed everything and changed my front rack to S13 (for better lock apparently, was told same effect could be acheived with an R33 p/s rack) but still

changed my resevior to S13 (as 32 has 4 outlets for rear hicas lines) and i changed my p/s pump to an RB25 pump and used a combination of S13 lines and 33 RB25 lines to hook up the rack to pump to resevior

no leaks, no problems

[Boss-zilla]

From my understanding if you block those off the fluid will not circulate properly and over heat. Fine the thread about removing the unit all together. I did this on my 32 gts-t and replaced the 'cooling' lines with a r33 auto cooler for the track.