Lift Tubes - How Much Grease?

[mhendriks]

Hi Everyone,

I've got a 2009 Palomino Yearling Y4124 that we've had for a number of years now. Nothing in the documentation seems to indicate how much grease I should be adding to the lift tubes. Does anyone have any experience here? I pumped about a third of a tube into it today and didn't see any pushing out anywhere.

The part isn't highly obvious in the pictures, but there's a bit of blue grease still on one of the zerks.

Thanks,

Mike

[lgdiver]

So my dealer never told me about greasing the lift tubes, I’m sure it was in the manual, but I got like 10 different manuals and I couldn’t find this answer either.

Last year my cable broke and when I disassembled everything, these are just hollow tubes where there is a push rod that pushes these giant springs up to extend the top. It’s actually a very simple process (took a weekend to complete properly though) but I felt like mine had barely any grease on them. Well, I unloaded about 3/4 of a tube Of grease last year after I did the replacement cable and added about 12 shots to each fitting today when I opened everything up. I don’t think it can hurt.

[mhendriks]

That's excellent information. Thanks for sharing

[lgdiver]

Also on mine, I have a top tube zerk fitting and one on the bottom. Good luck