TLDR - Links for the manual are below. But we can do better. If anyone has a proper PDF, please share!
It's been too long since a service manual for the new generation bike has been posted. I still can't easily find one online. Finally, I decided to bite the bullet and cough up $15 for the ebook..... There is no option to purchase a PDF... Only an ebook. I sent an email to yamahapubs asking if the manual can
only be used online... their official response was "
Yes, please be informed that EBooks are
VIEW ONLY and CAN NOT be downloaded or printed. You need an internet connection to access the ebook on our website." I accepted the challenge and bought the ebook. My results were much less than perfect.
From this ebook, I created three different offline ways to use the service manual. None of them are perfect.
An image for each page: Within around 10 minutes, I had a downloader grabbing all 811 pages... one by one... as jpg... These are basically useless, but it can give you some creative freedom. Have fun... Improve my work!
OCR PDF: It was easy enough to take these images, then run them through OCR software to make a searchable PDF.... (it's really not great).
HTML file (my preference): After a few hours of playing around and tweaking, I was able to scrape 'most' of the required ebook files. This allows us to basically use the ebook offline. In my opinion, this is the best we've got for the time being until we get our hands on the originating PDF.
Downsides for all three downloads:
1) They all originated from fairly low resolution images. The wiring diagrams are useless! (this is the case even if you purchase the ebook directly from Yamaha... Maybe the printed version has a higher resolution)
2) It's becoming apparent that Yamaha doesn't want us servicing our own bikes. Basically now everything requires the YDS/YDT.... I have a thread about that here:
fz10.org/post/37398/thread . Too often, the diagnosis/adjustment is using YDS... We haven't quite cracked that code yet, and I doubt any time in the near future we will unfortunately.
3) None of the three options are perfect for mobile device viewing.
Downsides for the OCR PDF:
1) The hyperlinks in the PDF are
broken. Meaning if you click on an item in the table of contents, it won't take you to a specific page. This sucks. Badly.
2) The OCR (making the PDF searchable) was done using Google Tesseract. Highlighting text is awkward and some text will be incorrect.
Pros of the OCR PDF:
1) It's in a universal format we all know and love. Will work on virtually any device that can open PDFs.
Downsides of the HTML file:
1) Just a clunky weird ebook design. I don't know why Yamaha forces this on us... Probably because it's harder to download/make a copy of.
2) Poor compatibility with mobile devices
3) Might be difficult to use for some... Let me know in the comments if I can help.
4) I didn't test this on a wide variety of setups... Compatibility even on desktops might be limited.
Pros of the HTML file:
1) Clickable table of contents and hyperlinks throughout the file (this is the biggest and most important one for me personally)
2) Accurate search results when searching for specific text
This still sucks!Where can we go from here? All three options I provided aren't perfect alternatives to just the original PDF. It looks like Yamaha used this garbage software
www.flipbuilder.com/ to make their ebook. The original PDF must be out there.. I saw something about it being posted to a facebook group, but I didn't have access... I can't find that thread anymore. My goal is to make the manual easily accessible for us and not behind a private facebook group, paywall, or crappy download site. If anyone has suggestions where else it can be uploaded, please let me know... Or better yet, upload it yourself and share a link. My links won't be around forever.
Please... Take credit for my work. Reupload my file anywhere and everywhere... profit off of it... I don't care. It's such a shame watching the repairability of our bikes go away without dealer-specific tools.
Proof:
imgur.com/a/atG4sBRHTML File download: (MD5Sum: 944e9bb703b404c66e8412bbcc2f6aa8
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lkc1j3jmqqbmsx7b8v7xi/2022-Yamaha-Mt-10-Service-Manual.zip?rlkey=5y2nbiqwx96yi2w0ohte7mudq&dl=0drive.google.com/file/d/12bSX4Qpu2cqnCVglAIcnVvR-mbPNtrX4/view?usp=drive_linkmega.nz/file/3c1QnbbT#F4Qo5ptR2aDLxI6PuG_HoI8mMXtA93EA1sdPVa_Io28OCR PDF download: (MD5Sum: 3b00f751d5cdd7011817e53b41f4ab92)
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/e8e2nkg6apt4bxjivdpio/2022-Yamaha-Mt-10-Service-Manual-OCR.pdf?rlkey=5seo82f4mzw2nif9vv723ztoj&dl=0drive.google.com/file/d/1cOIOXfuinidJFEWNpdF9Vo6_D0xqEsJi/view?usp=drive_linkmega.nz/file/fQ1wRSCI#bZ6Nx0XyAzq6nwE-yOEroG4VBvOvUVOiPw0zwUg9YjkImages: (MD5Sum: 7a3ee83755569dd3600d26ca6004af75)www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4vtzzq3y0dsrkfdqkraig/2022-Yamaha-Mt-10-Service-manual-images.zip?rlkey=iru98nv57obavyean8xn73p97&dl=0drive.google.com/file/d/1igCMxQ0DYfN_37TbL6yLRs39J_eAYGr0/view?usp=drive_linkmega.nz/file/nRkkEQLY#NNjqoC-QoQgxKJ2N_AYZDxBWMLAMsqXUkvdjmOs0XQA
