1978 Yamaha XS360 Service and Repair Manual

Publication LIT-11616-XS-42 is the book for the 1978 XS360, code XS360E. Yamaha used it for the XS360, XS400 and XS400 Special II from 1976 through 1982.

Using a shared manual

Procedures that are common to all these machines are written once; where a year or a variant differs, the text says so at that step. So the working habit is to confirm your code, then read the headings before you take a figure as yours.

Beyond that, the content is the factory standard: specifications and tightening torques, periodic maintenance, engine and gearbox overhaul, carburation, chassis and brake work, and complete wiring diagrams.

Specification pages list capacities, lubricant grades and adjustment ranges alongside the torque and clearance tables, and the overhaul chapters give removal and refitting in sequence. Troubleshooting is arranged by symptom.