I will explain how simple the toe-in of your DS can be adjusted.

Now I will show you, together with an aide, .

how to apply the special tool, to adjust the track

Look

Now I hold the pole against the rim

Now you can see the purpose of the screws

The heads of the screws should touch the inside rim of the wheel

Now you also see the reason for 38,5 cm between the screws

The heads of both bolts fit exactly between the diameter of the wheel

Put the bolts firmly against the wheel

and see that the pole is in a straight position.

Now I will ask my assistant Kees to put a mark on the floor

accurately indicating the screw on the top of the pole

Thank you!

We will do the same again with the pole pointing backwards

Kees will you please go to the other side?

In the same way we hold the pole in position

but this time pointing backwards

Yes! OK Kees, will you again put a mark?

Now we repeat the operation at the other side of the car

Here we do it do it again to start with the front

Yes it all right now, please Kees, put a mark

And now to the back

Yes, it's correct!

Ok, now we have four marks

indicating the position of the front wheels

Now we can measure the track of the car

Once more, we used a pole with a length of 220 centimetre,

two wood screws or nails are attached,

on a distance of 38.5 cm apart

now we have four marks on the floor

indicating the position of the front wheels

Kees, now we are starting the measurement

Will you please put the end of the tapeline on the hart of the mark

we are reading a distance of 176 cm

please remember!

Now we do the same at the rear

I will slide the tapeline to your side

Got it!

Please put the end on the hart of the mark

OK, splendid! Here it is 178 cm

You can release it now

We measured 176 cm at the front end

and 178 cm at the back,

the difference is 2 cm, divided by 10 gives us the toe-in

so the toe-in appears to be 2 mm.

the toe-in of a DS should be between the 2 and the 4 mm

Of course I knew this already

My car is perfectly on specs

This DS, like many DS cars are of age

some have oscillating wheels

this could have disturbed our measurements

To check this, we shift the car

for half a revolution of a wheel.

Then we repeat our measurements

And we middle the results

We put a mark at the present position of a wheel

Then we shift the car for half a revolution

It's easier with some help

Kees will you tell me when the mark is at the top?

Stop!

Now we have transferred the car by one half revolution of a wheel.

Time to start the measurements again

OK, once again

It's in position, put a mark

Yes! To the back

Yes, OK, to the other side

Front side first

Yes, correct

To the back

OK, now the measurement

Front first?

1.77 m

1.76 m

There must be a small error

At the front we have now 1.77 and

at the back 1.76

This indicates a considerable swing in the wheels

Because we see now a toe-out of 1 mm

At first we saw a toe-in of 2 mm

so the average of these two measurements show an incorrect track

of half a mm toe-in,

it should be 2 to 4 mm toe-in

so, now we have to increase the toe-in by 2 mm

the front wheels should be pointing more inwards

OK, let's do so

Open the hood

Now we have to explain what we should adjust

At this side of the car we see the tierod

And the adjusting collar

the adjusting collar can be rotated on order to change the track

the adjusting collar can be rotated on order to change the track

So I have to rotate in such a way that the toe-in increases

This is the collar to adjust the track

The collar has a right hand thread at one side

and a left hand thread at the other side

So turning in one direction gives more length

and the other way it gets shorter

so this should be turned

the first step is to loosen the retaining nuts a bit

so that the collar gets loose

We should find out what direction it should be turned

I found out that topside to the front means more toe-in

And of course the topside to the back means more toe-out

And also: one full turn equals 6 mm change, or 6 cm "on the floor"

We just measured on average half a cm toe-in

And we want something between 2 and 4 m

So I want to increase the toe-in by 2.5 cm

Which means turning the collar to the front

by just less than half a revolution

This is what we are going to do

Ok, let's loosening the two retaining nuts a bit

and now I turn it just less than half a turn to the front

sometimes the collar is very hard to turn

for instance by being damaged by pliers or by rust

you can see a slot in the collar

With a screwdriver you could widen the slot a bit

As you can see, with this car it can be turned by hand

Now it is in the required position

Now we repeat the entire measurement in two wheel positions

Before doing so, first I will drive the car a bit

So the parts can settle in the new position.

driving backwards and forwards

then we repeat the entire measurement

in two wheel positions as we did before

In case it is all correct than we tighten the nuts

If not we have to repeat the whole operation until all is set

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