I just pulled this pic off another thread and marked it up. You can see the lower clamp has a plug weld to the tube in the center of it. (That’s the one on mine that broke loose). Looks like in this pic the upper clamp, closest to the turn signal, is not welded to the tube. I guess that’s stock.
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