Ok, so Im pretty sure I wacked my car out of alignment. To keep the car going straight, the steering wheel has to be a couple degrees left of center. It also pulls to the right, especially when accelerating or decelerating. I dont want to pay someone else to fix this if I can. Cant find anything about it in the Chiltons manual. Anybody do this? How hard is it?

 

An alignment is a highly precision exercise, requiring specialized equipment. You can "eyeball" it, and not even be close. This is something best left to a shop, that has the equipment.

However...... First, make sure that your brakes, and bearings are in good shape. It would be a real bummer to spend the money, and not have it fix anything. Some pull on hard acceleration/decel is relatively normal. Especially if you are cornering anyway.

 

I had a really bad pull and to fix it I had to rebuild the entire front end including steering gearbox, ball joints, spring dampers and replace the brakes/calipers/hoses all around. It was ~ 6 months before I got around to doing all of it, but now...absolutely straight braking!