ok finished doing a motor swap and now i have one last problem to solve........... the upper control arms in the front........ the horse shaped things that hold up the rotor.......... i was taking out my old swap and i banged on it with a hammer and it came out now i try to put the nut back on and it wont go all the way up because i think the bottom threads of the bolt are F&*ed so what can i do to fix this, least amout of headaches plzz..........

i tried to buy a bigger nut for it i believe it was a 3/8th i tried one size bigger and its not fitting, they guy at the hardware store told me to re thread it? will that work? because even if i try to spin the nut on the bolt the entire bolt starts to spin how can i fix this? plzzzzzzzz help

 

Of course 3/8 wont fit...theyre metric and 3/8 is standard
Dont rethread it - you mushroomed the bolt when you bashed it.
You cant replace that balljoint; you need to replace the entire arm.
What generation civic do you have?

 

fudge its a 92 hb........... anyone got one for hella cheap in so cal 818

 

If you or somebody you know is good with a file, you could reshape the last few threads enought to get the nut back on. Just gotta work with it.