1974 Yamaha TX500 Service and Repair Manual

LIT-11613-71-01 is the Yamaha part number for the TX500 service manual, written for the 1974 model year alone. The code on the machine is simply TX500.

A single-year reference is unusual and useful. Nothing has been generalised to accommodate a later revision, so the figures and sequences given are the ones that applied to this bike as built.

For anyone restoring or maintaining a TX500 now, that specificity is the point. Wear limits, torque values, assembly order, carburettor and ignition settings and the original wiring diagram come from the factory rather than from accumulated hearsay, and they can be relied on when a rebuilt engine has to go back together correctly the first time.

Check LIT-11613-71-01 and the TX500 code against your machine before ordering.