Wrist Pins? How hard is it?

[Vash744]

I am looking at a 93 SE Coupe in craigslist and the owner claims that the motor runs, only it apparently needs wrist pins.

Clist post:
http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/2219531511.html

How hard is this to fix? Should the whole motor be dropped? How much is it going to cost to fix?

[blu35p4rr0w]

If you're going to replace the wrist pins that would mean you have to get the pistons out of the motor. So yes, you more than likely have to pull the motor out. I'm not experience dealing with rebuilding a bottom end, so I'm not sure what this will include. I'll leave that open to someone with more experience to tell you for certain. However I severely doubt you're going to be able to pull the pistons out with the motor still in the bay. If you do it yourself and you have the tools I don't think it will be too expensive so long as you do it right, if all you need truly is wrist pins. However if you have a shop do it for you it could cost you quite a lot.

As far as level of difficulty. I'm going to say this is up there high on the difficulty scale. Since you have to pull the motor out and pull it apart then rebuild the pistons then put everything back together right so you dont have leaks and the timing is perfect.

[EJX_Michael]

I say just drop an H in it or take the F out of your car you have now, ryan.

[90blackcoupe]

if the wrist pins are fubared, then more then likely the pistons are fubared, and the block is fubared, just replace whole motor its cheaper

if your question is how hard is it? wrist pins, well imagine it like this, a wrist pin aka piston pin takes a great load, it stops once at tdc, and once at bdc, it takes the force of being hit with a 6,000lb dump truck 77times per second. (think about that next time your reving past 7,000)