Originally Posted by carfreefamily

I was swapping the pedals out on the Schwinn Super Le Tour I bought at the local bike swap a couple of weeks ago. The non-drive side pedal took a great deal of effort to extract, and a fair amount of the threads came out with it. It could have been cross-threaded in there. It’s hard to be sure. There really aren’t that many threads left in there, but my new pedal did thread into the space, and it seems tight, (though I certainly didn’t crank down on it once it was snug). Since the force on the pedal is not really horizontal, I would think it would be safe enough to use, but I thought I would check on the collective wisdom here. What do you think? The pedal is the original one I removed.