Stripped oil drain plug Options

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Bringing the 914-4 back from mostly sitting for the past three years (under 1,000 miles in all that time), I forgot the oil drain plug was boogered up by a DAPO or oil change place...

Based on what came out, there were only a few shreds of thread somehow attached to the bottom of the drain plug hole, and a horribly mangled soft crush washer. Most of the "bore" is pretty smooth, with some original thread left at the top. Pic below.

My question is how to fix this. I see references to Heli-Coils, but somewhere I got the impression they need some thread left...? Whereas a Time-Sert or similar requires boring and fitting a thread insert.

How difficult is it to do this right with something like a Time-sert for a guy that reassembled some CV joints correctly on the *second* try? With the car up on jack stands in the back, so at an angle. And then what the heck do I use for a drain plug?

Thanks!

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It was a bit of a pain finding a big enough tap wrench/handle for this tap but I finally got one today. Then I put on my big boy pants, gritted my teeth, prayed I wouldn't screw anything up, and tapped the oil drain. Used some old wheel bearing grease liberally applied to the tap to help collect the shavings. Test fit the plug, bored a little more, worried I might cross thread, but it all seemed good.

Plugged it, put in two quarts of some old generic Sunoco motor oil, and removed the plug - and some turnings that had collected on top of it. After that drained, refilled with some fresh oil and after a brisk ~10 mile drive tonight it seems okay. I'll check for a puddle in the morning. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I'll replace oil & filter again in around a 1,000 miles just because.

I did apply blue thread locker to the last (outermost) threads of the plug for a little extra piece of mind.