Norton Navigator ready for exhibition

Very nice - good job.

Hi Uli,

That is looking very tasty. One minor point is that you should fit a clip to the front down tube to hold the speedo cable back to the frame -otherwise it will rub on the front mudguard and damage your paint. I do like your Wipac ammeter - so much more classy than the Lucas one. Has your fuel tap got two plungers?

What reference number is on your 80mph speedo -it may be from an early Jubilee ? I am looking for an original 80mph one for a March 1959 Jubilee- the reference number I want is SN 3103/20.

Patrick.

Ulrich,

Well done. A really good job. It is not generally known that the front mudguard changed part number in around 1963/4 when Norton introduced wider roadholder forks. Up from 7 ins wide to 7 3/8 ins I believe. Owners have found, like yourself that the later front mudguard scrapes the inside of the fork shrouds when fitted to 7 ins forks. The difference is small.

The earlier front mudguard, on the other hand, can be made to fit both narrow and wider roadholders, but does preclude the fitting of wide front tyres as fitted on some post '63 heavyweights. Like the scrambler look favoured in the USA.

Perhaps reshaping the mudguard or the U bracket will get you the small clearance between mudguard and fork shrouds that you need. Some owners resort to gaiters.

Peter

Looking fabulous Ulrich, well done! Does the fuel tap have a reserve position and if so can you tell us where it can be purchased from?

Cheers

Nick

Looks lovely Uli, I must admit that your seat looks much higher at the back than mine, although mine is stepped.

I bought one of those taps from my local supplier (CMS Exeter), a Chinese copynodoubt! but they are available - you pull one for on and then the other for reserve.There's one on here not sure about thread size. https://www.feked.com/carbs-fuel/fuel-taps/page-3/

Dan

Thanks Uli and Dan, I still have the fuel tap the bike came with which I think is original because it is the same as my very late model 'F' registered Jubilee I owned back in the late 70s. It has a single plunger which turns to select the reserve but I am struggling to replace the cork to make a fuel tight seal so using a NOC one at the moment which doesn't have a reserve which is rather frustrating!

Nick

The standard Jubilee/Navigator petrol tap has a 1/8" BSP thread and it seems pretty difficult to get a tap of this size with a reserve. One of my lightweights has a 1/8" reserve tap and this has what I thought was the more common type with a lever action. (I think it is an Enots) But you then forget which position of the lever is reserve so you still run out of petrol. I have never seen one before with the two plungers !!.

German logic would say that you pull the outside plunger out for normal ON and then push the inside one out for Reserve ON.

Lovely pictures. I vote the Navigator as the best looker of all the British bikes on the stand. I wonder who owns it??

The VW T1 (that is the original split screen one) is very much in demand but 69000 Euro is definitely too much. I remember a local fruit farmer here had a new pick-up version way back in about 1957 or 1958; it looked so modern then but I think the early versions had a very small engine - 1200 CCM I think

Previously Ulrich Hoffmann wrote:

Here is my Navigator ready for an exhibition next weekend in Friedrichshafen , Germany.

Still with the ugly aftermarket seat, found an original one which needs a new cover. Already contacted Leighton?s.

Front mudguard is mounted for the show only, still hits the upper fork shrouds when the fork is compressed. The cutouts between the fork legs are too shallow.

Was able to find a NOS Wipac Ammeter and an early Wipac Ducon switch with both sides chromed and a shorter flick switch for high beam. Made a new simplified wiring loom, bike is converted to 12 volts , has a Boyer ignition. Left knob is lights on /off, right knob has no function. I mounted an ignition switch with key left front under the tank. A 100mph speedo is waiting for his new chrome bezel to be crimped. Therefore the 80 mph speedo is still mounted, it came with the bike.

And I fitted an Ewarts fuel tap with reserve function- no leaks so far..

Excellent re-build Ulrich,hope mine turns out as well.