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

340_dart_power said

My take on having the pickup tube resting against the inside bottom of the pan is analogous to taking a straw and putting it against a solid surface and trying to suck air or anything else through the straw. If it's making full contact as mine was, to the point where it gouged the pan, how could it possibly be drawing oil up and out of the pan efficiently? In any event, the motor was toast and now it's rebuilt, so hopefully by the end of this week it'll be up and running. I'll post video & photos when I can.

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Just so you know...if you look at the bottom of the pickup, you will see that the screen is recessed from the body of the pick up. It is almost a 1/4 of an inch. It is designed so that body touches the floor of the pan and the strainer (the screen) will be the correct distance from the pan. If you don't have the body of the pickup touch the floor of the pan, the strainer will be too far from the floor and it will act like it is out of oil.

That's the way Chrysler designed it and they weren't the only ones who did it that way.

I realize that it is counterintuitive to put the pick up on the floor, but that's how it was designed. I've seen plenty of tore up stuff and the height of the pickup was the issue.

I hope you have sorted out what caused the failure you had.