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Hi all
Can i ask a few stupid questions...
  1. Is it the rear lamp i have or is it the same on all.... does the top vertical surface of the lamp & backing rubber not follow the exact contour of the No plate carrier assembly of fibre glass housing on which it sits against?
  2. Does the faring bead rubber strip get placed onto the tail lamp fibre glass housing, or onto the No plate carrier.
  3. The rear lamp i got wasn't fitted to the number plate carrier & neither was the upper support bracket. On each the rear lamp studs were fitted two standard size nuts two washers and a spacer (deep) nut..... so my question is this the correct number of nuts/washers & where on the three components are all these parts fitted. i do know that the deep nut goes on last as the fairing housing screws into it
No matter how i try to put mine together i looks like a complete and utter dogs dinner...a right mess, things don't line up gaps at top & not at bottom, tail lamp housing doesn't fit etc.

Any help would be appreciated as the AN site doesn't give much away... BTW i have the 73 later type large rectangular rear lamp assembly

Thank you
 
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maylar said:
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Looking at your photo if I'm not mistaken the upper support bracket is positioned above the "U" bracket over the frame.... i have positioned mine below the bracket like shown on the AN website??? And i have to say your rear lamp definitely follows the contour of the number plate carrier better than mine
 
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olympus said:
Hi Les, can you confirm if the upper support bracket sits above or below the "U" clamp (over the frame) .... the parts picture on AN suggest it sits below
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Mine is below.
 
I've tried it with the lamp bracket both above and below, and I wouldn't say below is definitely correct only that it's how the two brackets seem to fit the best on my Commando.
 
I luv a consensus... I also think it should be below.
I appreciate the AN parts diagram is a scan from the original parts book, but it does suggest below.
But the main reason i think it should be below is that under the front special bolt is a spacer... yes the bracket & spacer aren't the same thickness... but close enough and you wouldn't have the "U" bracket with a spacer only under one.......or would you??
 
I disturbed mine for the first time ever last year to replace the number plate/ indicators holding plate and put the assembly back as I found it. An assembly line worker on piece work would be shown the correct sequence but there is no guarantee they followed it and if they picked the wrong sequence they would not be taking it apart to redo it.
 
olympus said:
But the main reason i think it should be below is that under the front special bolt is a spacer... yes the bracket & spacer aren't the same thickness... but close enough and you wouldn't have th "U" bracket with a spacer only under one.......or would you??
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The 06.4016 spacer apparently is supposed to go under the mudguard. Edit: Mine doesn't have it and if I tried to fit that 1/4" thick spacer then the nut wouldn't go on or at least not more than a turn or two!
 
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I was struggling to get mine to fit well and then resorted to bending the bracket. It bends quite easily above the welded section for the indicators. That gave me the right fore/aft fit.

It's still not quite right vertically, which wasn't that obvious until I got it out the garage and could look from further back. Still on the snagging list to sort...
 
L.A.B. said:
The 06.4016 spacer apparently is supposed to go under the mudguard. Edit: Mine doesn't have it and if I tried to fit that 1/4" thick spacer then the nut wouldn't go on or at least not more than a turn or two!
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I think that the 5/16 nut is a slim nut 14.0402 so to achieve a fully thread nut... Looking again at Kommando's pics with that heavy spacer below the guard the top support bracket can go on top of the "U" bolt

 
I buy stainless UNF nuts in bulk, the rusty original will have been discarded.
 
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