Sunbeam ALPINE I SERIES: APLINE II SERIES, Workshop Manual, Page: 170 / 413

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Section F (Front Suspension)
Fig. 4.
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Fig. 5. Churchill tracking gauge in position at front of front wheels
Release dial pointer so that It comes into contact
with the chalk mark on the tyre wall, and check
the free movement of the gauge.
Take the reading on the dial. (See Fig. 6).
If correct, retract the dial pointer and remove the
gauge.
To adjust track (toe-in) setting
Leave the gauge In position.
Slacken the locknuts at each outer track rod ball
Joint.
Note the difference between the dial reading and
the recommended setting and HALVE this figure.
Adjust the track by rotating each track rod equally
until the pointer on the dial has moved the amount
of this final figure In the required direction. (Any
adjustment made at the rear of the wheels is
duplicated at the front of the wheels In the opposite
direction so that the effective adjustment made to
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