Pretty nice barn find!!!!!

[chuck hahn]

DR..the turn signals were moved to the fairing..see the pics with it on the bike. We had to put them back on the bucket. The original headlight was still mouted and the fairing was just placed on right over top of it.

[airportcop]

Vintage bikes are really cool and that one is awesome! Thanks for sharing. When you get her running you should post up a video.

[chuck hahn]

How many of you know the history of the SOLEX carbs ..precursers to todays Mikuni CV carbs. And yup..all the slides move and all the idler knobs and stuff are freely moving as well!!! This bike has the Solex carbs by the way..i mean to tell you its bone stock like the day it was bought.

[Clone]

After removing the fairing and some cleaning....

Way nicer without the jammer fairing.

[chuck hahn]

How did ya like that sissy bar and rack??? Rusty as all get out and in the scrap pile with the fairing.

[recycled64]

One of the Achilles Heels of that series of Yamahas, especially the TX500 stable-mate, was a tendency for the heads to develop cracks around the valve seats. I well remember a nice little cafe 500 I sold at one of the shops I worked at, came back running badly, and one of our service guys was familiar with them, took the head off nearly first thing, and sure enough, cracked combustion chambers. A weld job in the area would have been only a temporary, and not very effective fix, the valve seats would have to be removed to do the business, just not a practical solution. Too bad, cuz they really were kind of nice looking, as evidenced by your pics. A compression check would be in order, and soon, and if it was decent, selling it to a collector of those bikes as soon as possible would be a good idea.

[chuck hahn]

Already been on ebay and theres A LOT of parts, so the few things it needs may not be that hard to come up with. The bikes saving grace was it being kept inside its entire life. The guy we got it from was 82 or 83 I think he said. I didnt think to ask if he had all the recall stuff done, but seeing as he had taken the care to store itm right and such its probably a good bet he has. I can do a cold compression test easily enough..but the real numbers is on a warmed engine. I jusy got good vibes about the thing!!!!

[El Giablo]

Nice find... El G

[chuck hahn]

And on the head cracking issue..he last had it "legal" in 86 but he said he rode it from time to time even after that, so what do you think....recalls and head are probably already addresed???

[JEEPRUSTY]

Huge load of awesome Chuck
The bike is near museum quality
I would try and see if the mother want her baby back.
The tidbits and printed stuff is what seals the deal
that and the seat that has an un-faded name embossed on it.

[chuck hahn]

The Yamaha is a tad faded but still very nice. Seat itself is clean and supple without one tear or rip and has the pillion grab strap too. Pan looks almost new. Ive looked on ebay and its looking like around 4 to 500 in the needed parts and she may sell for some good money as an all original low mile running bike. I will have to snap a few pics under the seat at some point.

[Schweisshund]

That looks like a LOT of fun Chuck!!! You are going to have a great time

[chuck hahn]

Steve..shes gonna need the front master rebuilt, caliper seals and boots replaced, right mirror..or a full newer set, battery, foot brake lever removed and everything freed up better than it is, petcocks rebuilt or aftermarkets, basic carb parts like the orings and bowl gaskets..thats sort of what you normally would expect to need replaced.

[JEEPRUSTY]

No doubt about its CC displacement
Whaddya say fellas? Nice set of jugs?

[chuck hahn]

Check out the exhaust crossover manifold bolted to the front of the engine...pretty snazzy!!!!!