solid oil pickup

I have a question that is going to make some purists cringe, but here goes-I am thinking about wiring my oil pickup in the down position. Another option would be to drill holes in the float. The advantage, if my thinking is right, is that it would always be near the bottom of the pan, fully covered by oil, and I wouldn't have to worry about it ever binding in the up position. Maybe that never happens, but murphy's law says anything that CAN happen, WILL happen. I don't let my oils in any vehicle go longer than recommended for change, so I don't get sludge and I'm not very worried about getting water in the oil. None of my other vehicles have floating oil pickups, is there a reason why it would be important here? I'm getting ready to put the pan back on after changing the rod bearings and now I'm thinking about that first few seconds after start=up. It seems that a few inches of oil already in the pickup tube would be good, even after everyday shutdowns, because it drains back down when off.I ask this question here because there may be conditions or reasons that I'm overlooking, and if I've learned one thing it's that more information is better than less for making decisions. PS I do plan to try to fill the oil galleys(galleries?) before start-up

Ol' Unreliable wrote: Crud in the oil is expected to sink to the bottom.   A floating pickup won't suck in the contaminants.  You don't know that there will never be water in your oil.  Sounds like a bad idea IMO.

I had a lot of time to think about it and by this morning, since I had seen no feedback on the idea, I decided to just put it back together as designed. I kind of assumed no feedback meant nobody likes the idea much. Now I see three opinions that are in complete agreement with each other (and that's rare) so it goes back in today with float functioning, and I don't expect any problems. Thanks for the feedback

Edited by wyocj2a - 22 July 2018 at 5:11pm

Yeah lee it was really full of crap, it got a thorough cleaning-it's in now, oil pan on, just looking at best ways to prime the pump...