this in the front toe/sway bar link. trying to install my springs my friend banged the **** out of it and fuc%ed up the thread right in the beginng. so i can't get the nut back on. so i'm ****ed. i called kilgros, home depot, city mill, hawaii nuts and bolts, and non have a 17mm die. so if anyone has ideas or a die i can rent from you. or i'd have to buy a new link from the dealer, which i'm sure they don't have instock, and would cost choke. help me please.

what i need:

the thread thats messed up

 

happened to me..i jus sanded the stripped part down so u can get the nut over it..if the nut is screwed too, u can get it at napa

 

oh i forgot i have a high speed rotating sander. i'll try that in the morning. i really hope it works

 

next time focus on the bolt not the background, it would make it easier to see...just a random comment that flew out of me...sorryq

 

yea i was trying. but my digital cam is kind of old already.

 

You can try Aloha Tap & Die or Industrial Hardware for a die.

 

I PM'd you on the other forum.

 

are you sure it's a 17mm die you're looking for and that's not the nut size? you need to measure the actual bolt at the threaded portion it self. Check with Sears or you'll have to go to the truck (Snap-on, Mac). You probably want to get a thread chaser and not a die. Die's are more for cutting new bolts where as a thread chaser is used to cleanup f'd up threads.

 

^ you're right, i'm an idiot. it was 12mm. i was able to fix it at work.