A useful and informative video as always. I wish I had it when I fitted my kit. However I think it would have been better if it had been shown being fitted to a MkIII with standard exhaust mountings rather than your lowered ones. It is clear at certain parts of the video, but very obvious at 7:44 onwards that the exhaust mounting brackets are fitted incorrectly. They are upside down. This also has the side effect of requiring you to remove the silencers to get the rear wheel shaft out. I would also guess that you do not have a side stand fitted. I understand you can only fit to what you have in hand, but it would have been fairly simple to fit the brackets the right way up before recording the video. Note:- With the exhaust the fitted correctly, the fitting procedure is exactly the same and it does fit.
I have a 1974 Mk2a and I found the nut on the top rubber mount for the silencer fouls the flat part of the pannier rack, so giving no room to move with the isolastic. Are there different types of silencer mounting plates? Otherwise I will have to drill another hole in the plates and move the rubber mount away in order to give clearance. There is not a great deal of room to move them.
Hi Bertie, so the best bet is to drop Ash an email with some photos on and then he can give you a more in depth answer to this question. If you email to technical@andover-norton.co.uk that'd be great.
Thanks, will do. The luggage kit is great. I would recommend it. The quick release is brilliant, just pop them off with the key and they become suitcases. Really well designed and engineered.
Exactly the same issue on a 74 Mk2. I added a packer piece between the flat part on the carrier and the silencer plate. This means you need to buy longer bolts. Without a packer the carrier is very close to fouling the rubber silencer mounts. A far better way would be to have a bigger step outward on the carrier plate but I did not wish to cut weld and then rechrome. I also found the holes in the carrier did not align by 15 mm and 9 mm either side. This required the use of wooden blocks and g clamps to get it to fit. This frame is straight. 5 years ago it was mounted on a frame jig and the dimensions checked against Fig F4 in the Workshop manual. The video shows lots of room on an Interstate with lower pipes but execution of the design is poor for a Roadster. To be honest after fighting the fit of this rack for hours and having to obtain new longer hardware I'd have to say for the price this is poor quality from a fit point of view. The mounting plates for the higher pipes on the later Mk 2 Roadster give minimal clearance which a trivial redesign would fix. Plus the holes do not line up on a frame which has been checked by measurements on a lazer equiped frame jig against the Workshop manual noes. I'm wondering if the quality control has fallen on the welding of the frames. The welding of the lower bracket is not the same either side. The tubing is welded in the centre of the L return on one side and on the outside edge on the other. This means there is about a 4 mm difference in the location of the tube one side to the other. Design is fine. Detailed construction is poor. Rack bought from Andover in early Dec 2024. No instructions enclosed only a parts list in German. Two of the 4 bolts needed to mount the top frame missing. Attempting to fit it over Christmas New Year period so no help available by phone. Location New Zealand.
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A useful and informative video as always. I wish I had it when I fitted my kit. However I think it would have been better if it had been shown being fitted to a MkIII with standard exhaust mountings rather than your lowered ones. It is clear at certain parts of the video, but very obvious at 7:44 onwards that the exhaust mounting brackets are fitted incorrectly. They are upside down. This also has the side effect of requiring you to remove the silencers to get the rear wheel shaft out. I would also guess that you do not have a side stand fitted.
I understand you can only fit to what you have in hand, but it would have been fairly simple to fit the brackets the right way up before recording the video.
Note:- With the exhaust the fitted correctly, the fitting procedure is exactly the same and it does fit.
I have a 1974 Mk2a and I found the nut on the top rubber mount for the silencer fouls the flat part of the pannier rack, so giving no room to move with the isolastic. Are there different types of silencer mounting plates? Otherwise I will have to drill another hole in the plates and move the rubber mount away in order to give clearance. There is not a great deal of room to move them.
Hi Bertie, so the best bet is to drop Ash an email with some photos on and then he can give you a more in depth answer to this question. If you email to technical@andover-norton.co.uk that'd be great.
Thanks, will do. The luggage kit is great. I would recommend it. The quick release is brilliant, just pop them off with the key and they become suitcases. Really well designed and engineered.
Exactly the same issue on a 74 Mk2. I added a packer piece between the flat part on the carrier and the silencer plate. This means you need to buy longer bolts. Without a packer the carrier is very close to fouling the rubber silencer mounts. A far better way would be to have a bigger step outward on the carrier plate but I did not wish to cut weld and then rechrome. I also found the holes in the carrier did not align by 15 mm and 9 mm either side. This required the use of wooden blocks and g clamps to get it to fit. This frame is straight. 5 years ago it was mounted on a frame jig and the dimensions checked against Fig F4 in the Workshop manual.
The video shows lots of room on an Interstate with lower pipes but execution of the design is poor for a Roadster.
To be honest after fighting the fit of this rack for hours and having to obtain new longer hardware I'd have to say for the price this is poor quality from a fit point of view. The mounting plates for the higher pipes on the later Mk 2 Roadster give minimal clearance which a trivial redesign would fix. Plus the holes do not line up on a frame which has been checked by measurements on a lazer equiped frame jig against the Workshop manual noes.
I'm wondering if the quality control has fallen on the welding of the frames. The welding of the lower bracket is not the same either side. The tubing is welded in the centre of the L return on one side and on the outside edge on the other. This means there is about a 4 mm difference in the location of the tube one side to the other.
Design is fine. Detailed construction is poor.
Rack bought from Andover in early Dec 2024. No instructions enclosed only a parts list in German. Two of the 4 bolts needed to mount the top frame missing.
Attempting to fit it over Christmas New Year period so no help available by phone. Location New Zealand.