I've been gone for a few days, I don't have the pedal off yet. I am going to ask for a stronger person's help. I am out of tricks. I did talk to the LBS guy I know and his thought was with the moaning of the pedal and not freeing up that it got cross threaded a bit when it bent or that the pedal was put on incorrectly. He wasn't encouraging and thought that odds are that the crank threads are damaged. The crank is hardly worth repairing.