Replacing pistons

Asked by GuruLLCKK Apr 07, 2019 at 03:45 PM about the 2003 Nissan Maxima SE

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Our mechanic said to repair one piston, it
would be better to replace the whole engine
than to than to take apart the engine for the
piston??

4 Answers

Yes. Rebuild the entire engine or not at all.

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Low levels of oil caused the piston to make noise and not work . . I was told it's a lot of work many hours to replace one piston... can I get a second opinion.????

If you ran the engine out of oil the entire engine is probably damaged. It is a lot of work to replace one piston and it would be a total waste of money in my opinion. Get all the opinions you want!

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You can spend hundreds of dollars replacing one piston (its been done several times) but there's a reason the piston has issues, probably not long until one or more problems presist. It could fix the problem for a week or a year, long story short one day it will blow up. So you may as well bite the bullet and either rebuild the entire thing or the cheaper alternative and just put a used motor in it.

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