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well piston slap is when your piston pin seizes or stiffens up. to where the piston cant pivot back and forth easily so the sides of the piston slap the side of the cylinder wall. the only way you can fix this is to replace the piston that is making the noise. which means you have to tear down the engine to get the piston out and back in. if you have toyota or a mechanic do it your looking at a few thousand. but if you do it yourself its only prolly 600-900 for machining new bearings and gasket set. or you can just save up for a JDM motor for about 1000. and just drive on this motor til you do. its not terribly importnat unless you plan to fix it. then you need to do so asap. but if you are going to swap in a whole new motor then you can drive this for a while and eventually it will burn oil like crazy. so the choice is yours.
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