Yeah those are proper V8 hoses, and your assessment is spot on. The part with the liner is indeed the first part of the pressure hose and that's really the only difficult bit. The inner nozzle is in the pump end banjo, and there is a support bush holding the liner in place just where that crimp is where you cut it open. The liner stops at the bolted union and then the second half is just 10mm hose.
The return is pretty simple as you've seen - its just a hose with a union on one and and a reducer on the other. That one is pretty simple to recover.
My thoughts with the pressure hose are to cut the outer hydraulic hose off and recover both the liner and the support bush. They can be put in to a new hose but instead of having a bolted union in the corner, just terminate the liner in a standard hose joiner, or maybe a 90 degree to get round the corner. Crimp two bits of hose together at that joiner and then crimp on to the rack-end banjo.
Its just a case of finding someone with the intelligence and parts to do it.
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