There are tools to clean up goobered threads. If it's at the outside making it hard to start, NAPA and others sell square bars with knurled ends at eight different pitches that are handy for cleaning them up. Priced pretty reasonable.
More costly is a chase, looks like a die but with slightly different dimensions and meant for cleaning things up over the lenthg of the thread. If the problem is at the start BE VERY CAREFUL as you can wind up with a worse mess using a chase.
I had a similar problem with the thread for the nut over the steering wheel on my BN. My neighbor happened to know the only guy in three states and to Canadian provinces who happend to have a 13/16" NF die to clean it up. But only after using that inexpenive square whatchamahoozit I mentioned.
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