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Originally Posted by Familyman 90
Why risk a helicoil if a new sump is available? Helicoil is what you turn to when all reasonable options are exhausted, not a first port of call.
Unless its been to the same garage for evdry single service from new its impossible to establish where the damage may have originally occurred.
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A helicoil repair will be just as strong as the original if not stronger, and a sump plug is never tightened to the full "strength" a thread of this size can deal with anyway.