Originally Posted by 6PakBee
I don't know about '70 but this is a direct quotation from page 9-68 of the 1967 FSM:

"The bottom of the strainer must touch the bottom of oil pan."

If '70 is similar, I'd pull that pan now.


Yes, you are exactly right.

Too many have no idea of that relationship. The stock, it'll say it again for the boy racers, STOCK pick up has a sheet metal shield that touches the bottom of the pan and sets the correct relationship between the pickup and pan.