The 340 is out....again.....

If you have a stock pan and pickup, the pick up SHOULD touch the pan. The engine builder getting bashed set it up correctly. The pick up is designed to sit on the pan floor. You move it away and I promise you it will run out of oil. Unless you add two extra quarts.

Promises... Promises.
In 29 years I've never let them touch the pan. Where are all the witness marks on undamaged pans coming off an original engines? I don't recall ever seeing one.
It would have been 30 years' history but the first one that touched did just that when the dumb teenager jacked the engine up by the pan...lol.