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Ok guys, I had the front end aligned on my 49 pickup and had all new inner and outer tie rods and ball joints replaced, adjusting sleeve, and upper ball joints. The lower ball joints checked out fine. My front end is back out of alignment again. Pulling just a little to the right just like it was before I had the front end aligned but not as bad. I checked and nothing seems to be loose or bent. I had the wife help and checked the dimensions on the front of the tire and at the back of the front tire. Front measured 62 1/4" and at the back it measured 62 3/4" so looks like toe in to me. I tried the string check and set up a string on both sides of the truck being parallel to the truck and the string was same distance across at the front and the back. This was just to subjective and to much eye balling to do any good for me. I believe the measurements on the tire to be more accurate showing toe in. The front end is off a 91 Chevy S10. Looking at the pic (drivers side), if I loosen both nuts, which way should I turn the adjusting sleeve for more toe out? Since I don't really know which tire may be out I think my plan is to adjust both sides just a little and take a test drive and keep doing that until I'm satisfied. Unless someone else has a better plan of attack.