I was trying to remove it so I could remove the control arms only to find out later on that all I had to do was hammer at the ball joint to remove it..

So I messed up the threads when I was hammering at the CV joint thread. I was told to use a tap and die or thread file.

PLZ help I am driving around with out a CV nut on only relying on the rust that is hold it together.

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Why have more money than brains? Cuz RACE CAR :

Do NOT DRIVE THAT THING AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you die in the next 3 days don't say I didn't warn ya....

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2012 Ford Focus SE Sport
2012 MINI Cooper Clubman

I have ADHD and drive a Focus. Ironically.
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.

Most likely you mushroomed the head of the stud and a tap and die wont do much to help just go buy a new axle next time you are gonna use a hammer on a threaded surface leave the nut on so its flush whit the stud and then hit it will prevent mushrooming

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driving around without the nut wont hurt anything except for the axle/hub. even if the axle pulled out of the hub (which is not very likely) it would just strip the splines on the hub/axle.

and as beau said, you will need a new axle since you most likely mushroomed the end of it.

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Peace, I'm outta here!

GREAT! If feel like a complete idiot right now... I had a feeling about this, but I did it anyways. The price of learning the hard way I guess. What I don't understand is why didn't the axle come out of the hub has easy has the other side did. It was REALLY stuck together.

Well I guess it a good time to upgrade the Axle to the HD ones anyways and I may has well get a new hub too just in case.

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ok, well I'm going to try a thread file since I really didn't screw up the threads that badly. Wish me luck!

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I agree with thelongone here.
The only thing that holds the bearing together is the axle nut, and without it the whole wheel will just fall off. I know because I have seen it happen many times, and have towed many cars for this reason. You should be able to buy a die the right size and just repair the old threads, or even use a dremel to grind the mushroom off. There should still be plenty of good threads to have a good bite on the nut.

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Six-speed top-swapped GT, sold.
2006 F-150 4x4 for a daily driver.