Yeah, you picked a very hard one as your first attempt for IF alignment, a real pain!
And as mentioned above, the way pointed out in the SAMS often makes more sense, it worked for me with the ARVIN, using a RF frequency generator and a meter to set the coils, I do not have a sweep marker generator, so I was not able to do the final overall IF alignment step, but as I said before, of all my BW sets, the ARVIN is the only one that gets snow W/O anything hooked to it, so I must have got it rather close to right!