If you get the hole re-tapped or otherwise fixed, perhaps it would be worth considering protecting this and your other threads from further damage.

Oil or grease (preferably grease) will help, and anti seize (preferably aluminium based) will provide further protection.

Since I can't get anti seize here in Taiwan, for this sort of thing (for example on wheel studs) I usually use grease with polythene sheet over the thread before screwing it home.

PTFE thread tape is a cheap and available alternative more suitable for fine threads.

Protects threads from damage and ensures you can take things apart when you want to.

If your bolt or stud threads are corroded, if you don't have a die to run down them (which I'd guess is the pro solution, or replacement) you can clean them up fairly well by sticking them in the opening of a beer can and rotating them while pressing the thread root against the sharp edges.

Removes corrosion and maybe also deposits some protective aluminium in the thread root.

I did once make a multi-can-lid stack to speed this up but lost it and never got around to making another.

If you dont have grease, and dont feel its worth buying some, vaseline would do at a pinch. Maybe even margarine, though I havn't tried that and it'd probably go rancid. In any case. maybe give the threads a rub with aluminium foil too.

Re improvised lubricants, don't use vegetable oil on threads since it sets to a strong adhesive and you'll have trouble undoing it.

(I mean scaffolding-pole-lever-on-wheel-nuts style trouble. Not doing that again.)

Edited by edlithgow on 03/05/2022 at 01:48

Thanks mate. I just did this and it worked! You just saved my summer

He means Wrangler-Rover, not me