Is the pickup bent? Car was jacked up in the wrong spot using the oil pan and I fear it bent the pick up. I've tried both the Thornton OP+ pan plus an OEM 455 pan and it's hitting something in that area causing the holes on one side to not align. Thoughts?

 

The pickup tube is just a friction fit into the oil pump. In the picture it is not sitting right, it should be almost level and not angled toward the crank or angled up to that degree. You should be able to move the tube and screen assembly back to level sitting just off the bottom of the oil pan sump.

 

The screen should be about 3/8" to 1/2" off the bottom of the pan with the gasket. I put a piece of modelling clay on the flat part of the screen and put the pan on and see how much it flattens the clay. You will have to tack weld or braze the pickup to the pump when done if it has been moved a bunch.

 

This is a 425 I did a couple of years ago. Not sure if this was the final position but its close.