Mitsibishi ME 40 Escavator

[slowzuki]

Looking at a Mitsibishi ME 40 escavator right now that a
neighbour has for sale. It has 4000 hrs and it is on steel tracks.
Weighs about 5-6 ton (4000 kg machine).
One of the front idlers has spit its bushings out (I assume, there
is a pile of slop!) and the other side the idler yoke tracks are
worn and the idler has been over extended and is flopping half
out of the idler track.

The sprockets are good but the chains on the tracks are worn
down a lot. Rollers and idlers look ok, pads are worn but ok.

The machine runs and works well, everything is tight except the
linkage at the bucket. It looks like the grease fitting there has
been knocked off for a while.

Someone reconfigured the controls via the quick connects then
tried to put them back but the rotate via the joystick just causes
the relief valve to operate. Looking inside one of the quick
connects is off the valve block. The foot pedal rotate works fine.

The machine drives well, both motors turn the tracks well, drives
straight.

The fellow is asking 8000$ Canadian for it.

I understand it was also sold as a Cat model too but can't find a
cross reference to what mitsu models are which cat models.
There are no mitsi dealers locally only cat so I'd like to price the
parts to repair the undercarriage to see if the guy is asking a fair
price.

Anyone know the cross reference?

 

[hockeypuck]

Dude,

Your looking and two new chains , rollers, idlers maybe grousers as well??? Bucket repair and other general maintenace. I can not see you putting any less than 10 to 13 grand into this machine. Is this machine in good condition worth 15,000 ???? Barely. There are a lot of ifs in this caculation. Because the machine was not well taken care of, me thinks there are other major problems down the road.

Puck

 

[slowzuki]

Spent more time with the machine and although it works well and is the size of machine and price range I am looking for, I probably will pass since no dealer is local.

The tracks on further inspection are incorrect pitch for the machine so the sprocket has destroyed every bushing on the track. It is also the reason the idler yokes are overextended and ruined.

Again this looks like a case of it is better to drop 20K on a unit that has seen better care then sell it when done working it.