{"product_id":"1976-yamaha-xt500-service-repair-manual","title":"1976 Yamaha XT500 Service and Repair Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first year of the XT500 is the one people rebuild, and the factory manual for it is LIT-11616-01-50. The 1976 machine wears the model code \u003cstrong\u003eXT500C\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is the code to check against the frame label before you order anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYamaha did something useful with this book. Rather than a separate volume per year, it wrote one service manual spanning 1976 through 1981, and extended it across the related SR500 and TT500 as well. So a single set of procedures covers three closely built machines and six model years, with the differences called out where they exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor work on a fifty-year-old thumper that means you get the original tolerances instead of a modern approximation: valve clearances as Yamaha set them, torque values for the head and cases, ignition timing, carburettor settings and the wiring as drawn at the factory. Anyone chasing a starting problem or reassembling a top end will spend most of their time in the specification tables, and those tables are reproduced as written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FactoryManual","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083134705886,"sku":"YAMAHAXT5001976SRM","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/4113\/8910\/files\/1976-yamaha-xt500-service-repair-manual_b0abf2b2-8bd1-46cb-b5d0-ecc0aae7abe3.png?v=1789926052","url":"https:\/\/factorymanual.com\/products\/1976-yamaha-xt500-service-repair-manual","provider":"FactoryManual","version":"1.0","type":"link"}