Some things are obvious

Some things....not so much.

I had 4 beers left over in a case from friday night. I saw my neighbor sitting on the porch and thought "he likes beer, and I'm not gonna drink em, so I'll give em to him." So, being the nice guy that I am, I gave him the beers, to which his response was "Is that that yeungling shit? I can't drink that."

Ok, dude, seriously, you steal shit to sell just to get a couple of bucks for beer and you're turning down yeungling? You're drunk when I wake up in the morning, and even worse off when I'm going to sleep, and you're turning down free beer?

OK, now i've seen it all.

So, I set my sights on doing some minor repairs to the altima, replace the battery, and maybe figure out which motor mount is bad. That's when I decided that I would open up the engine and see if I can figure out what's causing the rattling noise inside. I opened up the engine(I've done that before) and stared at it for a little bit(cause that's what people do). It took a good solid 3 minutes of staring, but eventually I noticed the hairline fracture on the upper timing chain guide. It was completely broken off and free to rattle to its hearts content. See, sometimes just staring at stuff will actually help you fix it. Its not just something that stupid people do.

Now, if anyone can tell me, on a scale from 1 to 10, how important an upper timing chain guide is, I'd be grateful because they're damn near impossible to find in a store and currently the altima doesn't have one. Now it doesn't look very important, but then again, my neighbor doesn't look like the type to turn down free beer either.