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Marque Remarks => Yamaha => Topic started by: Bruised on August 19, 2008, 10:33:44 pm

Title: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Bruised on August 19, 2008, 10:33:44 pm

For the HL Guru's

What triple clamps do the HL's have?  I am partcularly interested in the clamps that have the handle bars set off the top clamp by a fair way (more than normal anyways).  I've tried to attached a pic of one (fingers crossed)

cheers
Bruised
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: GMC on August 20, 2008, 08:48:32 am
The 78 parts book lists the lower as...
1W4-23345-L1-33
& the upper as...
1W4-23435-00-98

I think they were also available with some specials.
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Bruised on August 20, 2008, 11:46:16 am

Thanks GMC
Do they show a diagram or pic of these parts?
Bruised
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: dave king on August 21, 2008, 06:24:37 am
All HLs came with 38mm forks with the swept back bar mount top clamp and hi rise bars.
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Bruised on August 21, 2008, 09:05:33 am

Yep got that, 
I guess I'm keen on finding out what the triples are in the pic I posted.  They aren't swept back and the bar mount is really quite high off the top clamp.

any ideas?

Bruised
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: GMC on August 21, 2008, 09:09:58 pm
Hi Bruised
The clamps in your photo look like their from a later model & maybe with non original bar mounts.
The parts book doesn't have a very good picture...
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/gmcloa/HLtriples.jpg)


On the subject of HL's, I read in the Colin Mackellar Yamaha bible that the HL's came with a YZ250 A clutch & a ignition from a MX 125.
I'm curious as to how true this is.
The parts book lists the.....
Clutch assembly 583-16301-00
Ignition coil assembly 583-82310-50
Flywheel magneto assembly 583-81300-50
Also
Carby assembly 1W3-14101-00
Cylinder head assembly 583-11110-01-R4

Can anyone with one of those part No programs tell me what models these part No's are from?
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Bruised on August 21, 2008, 09:55:05 pm

Magnificant stuff
The parts book looks like the standard laid back bar clamps that I have.  I'll see if I can track down the original owner of the bike and ask the question about the ones in the pic.
Great help - thank you
Bruised
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Nathan S on August 21, 2008, 11:31:13 pm
1W3 = YZ250D (for the carby).
1W4 = YZ400D (for the triple clamps).
583 = TT500C (hardly surprising! :) ).

The 'genuine' HLs I've seen have custom, piss-weak-looking upper triple clamp??
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: paul on August 22, 2008, 02:09:17 am
that would be these nathan my profab  hl had these clamps which i saw another set on usa ebay that had white brothers stamped on them
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ibop/IMGP1027.jpg)
(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/ibop/IMGP1029.jpg)
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Maicojames on August 22, 2008, 10:40:56 am

For the HL Guru's

What triple clamps do the HL's have?  I am partcularly interested in the clamps that have the handle bars set off the top clamp by a fair way (more than normal anyways).  I've tried to attached a pic of one (fingers crossed)

cheers
Bruised

These look like Simons clamps
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: GMC on August 22, 2008, 08:09:09 pm
1W3 = YZ250D (for the carby).
1W4 = YZ400D (for the triple clamps).
583 = TT500C (hardly surprising! :) ).

The 'genuine' HLs I've seen have custom, piss-weak-looking upper triple clamp??

Thanks Nathan, seems the Yamaha bible has some lies then, at least as far as the 78 HL is concerned. I was wondering if they used an SR head but seems the whole motor is plain TT.
Do you know what size the 250D carby is?
The genuine HL's you have seen I expect were Profabs, not NV
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: dave king on August 23, 2008, 05:28:14 pm
more HL stuff here, www.classicyams.com             check out special bikes    for what a production HL looked like.
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: dave king on August 23, 2008, 05:30:38 pm
The pic at the top of the page shows 44mm fox clamps with the fox swept back bar clamps.
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: dave king on August 23, 2008, 05:33:37 pm
http://www.classicyams.com/special-yamaha-bikes/special-yamaha-bikes/yamaha-hl500_2.html
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Tahitian_Red on August 24, 2008, 06:01:59 pm
Acutually those look similar to Fox Factory Forx triple clamps to me, but the top clamp does look a little different.
Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: LWC82PE on August 24, 2008, 07:02:36 pm
here are the fox ones
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-6/1192012/81p4.JPG)

Title: Re: HL Tripple clamps on HL's
Post by: Bruised on August 24, 2008, 07:52:27 pm
Hey thats the critters I was chasing
The pic I originally posted has different bar clamps but that's the triples.
Thanks
Bruised