No, I was probably responding to your previous... comment when you unleashed that rant.
And you still don't get the point.
No, I get your point and you are correct. But we are discussing and oil pan with limited oil capacity. That pan was too small when they designed it, but to save space and money they made it small and then developed a pickup that sits on the bottom of the pan to pull every last drop of oil out of it you can.
People for decades have thought the pan gets sucked dry. That almost never happens. What happened was someone set the pickup too far off the floor and what little oil in the pan didn't to get picked up.
In reality, the big blocks were way more problematic because they hold more oil than a small block because of the skirted block. A 4 quart pan and skirted block is a formula for disaster. I half quart low and they'd start snagging rod bearings.
So yes, when you can get a solid head of oil over the pickup, it doesn't matter how refer away from the bottom of the container (pan) it is. The OP doesn't have that luxury. He is working with OE junk and needs to deal with it the way the OEM intended it.
I don't want someone to come along and read it doesn't matter where the pickup is as long as there is oil over it, because most guys don't realize how much oil and engine can trap.
I've seen the broken **** that comes from it, and my above quoted discussion was a close approximation of a customer I had. He didn't listen, kicked a rod out and I told him to take his junk elsewhere.
He went to a friend and I told him how to fix it. He didn't. Customer killed another one. My friend did the warranty, fixed it like I told him and then kicked that chump to the curb.
It's not like I'm guessing. I'm not. It's a FACT.
