[tjs72lemans]

Originally Posted by ta man

If you launch hard fluid will uncover the pickup, if you run a quart low your pickup may not suck fluid. if you take a corner hard you may uncover the pickup.

So, this same scenario is what happens with a stock trans pan too then. The level of the fluid to filter is always the same, deep or stock pan. Even if one had a pan that reached to the ground and filled up to the dipstick fill line. Now if someone says, you want the sediment on the bottom of pan sucked up so as not to accumulate and float around, I would understand the extension to lower the filter. But, I'm not seeing that argument. The filter sits well below the dipstick full line or even the lower fill line.
Half inch, I don't understand the sleeve and filter sloosh issue. It seems the filter or even with the spacer (which is an oval block) bolt tight to underside.