Replacing Bolt on Passenger's Wiper Arm

[Cain]

This evening I came home to find my tool for removing seized wipers from ebay. I managed to get my passenger's wiper arm off after around an hour of perseverance.

I then set out fixing the leak on my washer fluid bottle.

Now with everything back together apart from the one last bolt on the passenger wiper's arm. Unfortunately the nut won't quite go back on. It twists about 1/2 a turn. The top of the bolt is slightly crushed from levering the wiper arm. I obviously managed to get the bolt off alright, but it won't quite go back on.

Anyone have any smart ideas other than replacing the whole wiper mechanism?

Thanks!

 

[old_jalopy]

Probably best to run a die around the thread as youve probably mangled it slightly

 

[Cain]

The thread was in a bad way. I ended up picking up a new wiper mechanism from ebay and picked it up this evening as it was local-ish. All sorted