Our FR10 sleeve leans even after the pads were checked

Some sleeves rock in the pocket by hand. Others sit flat. Same marked sleeve type.

Keep one of each for comparison, with the pocket they came from.

Could still be the pocket. I had a moulded part catch on a little patch of residue and spent far too long comparing parts because the ones with slightly different edges caught it more readily. Two things can cooperate to make you look daft.

Compare both sleeves in the same identified pocket. Then compare that pocket with the intended seat. Otherwise you're changing the part and the support together.

Naomi's comparison would tell you more than another pickup edit. Who is examining the part variation with quality? The same type marking doesn't promise identical actual bases.

Quality and tooling have both samples. One has a raised moulding edge underneath. It touches the pocket floor.

Does that edge fall inside the sleeve's accepted condition, or is it a part defect?

Don't let my residue story become the diagnosis, by the way. You've found a physical edge on the part now; I'd want quality's answer before anybody attacks the pocket with a file.

Quality says the edge is permitted. The drawing locates on the annular face beside it, not that edge.

Then ask tooling whether the pocket leaves that edge clear. A permitted part still needs the intended contacts.

And keep the old point changes available for whoever restores the job after the mechanical work. Don't erase the trail and make them discover those offsets all over again.

Pocket drawing has clearance there. Fitted insert does not. Tooling identified an older insert in the tray.

There it is. Was the tray label identifying the insert or just the carrier? Ours said the right thing in very legible letters on the wrong bit of tooling.

Carrier only. Correct insert fitted by maintenance; both retained sleeves now seat on the intended face. Job verification follows.

Include the permitted edge variation in that verification, plus release. The easy sleeve shouldn't do all the demonstrating.

Verification complete with quality's accepted sleeve range, pickup and release included. Reviewed job now matches the corrected tooling. Thank you, Naomi, for pinning down the pocket comparison.

Good result. I bet the old insert looked reassuringly familiar every time it went back in.