JowettTalk

The Zenith carbs are built with 1 mm thick washers under the brass float valves. At this thickness my Javelin runs well but the plugs are always sooty. I have just fitted 1,5 mm thick washers and the plugs were cleaner. At 2 mm washers the plugs are improved again. If the engine is running, and you ...

I bought two 175R16 radial tyres for the rear axle - they fit fine, they are 19 mm (3/4") wider that the cross ply Avons. There is clearance to the rear wings. For a trial I then fitted them to the front axle and raised the front on two jacks on the lower wishbones so they were 'as on the road'...

I went to Bealiue auto jumble and bougtt a female threaded hub puller marked Javelin D. It does not fit my early, small, rear hubs nor the large later type. It seems to be 1 1/2" BSP female at 1.88" major diamter and 11 TPI. Hovever it is vey difficult to measure the internal TPI and it ma...

Hi, I have wondering about the age of my Javelin tyres. As an example one says 'Avon Tourist' and has an oval mark with '5E288 and a triangle' stamped into the rubber. Can anyone help with date codes please? Is this week 28 of 1988 or 1998? Cheers.