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Mitsibishi ME40 Escavator

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Ken Macfarlane

11-15-2006 06:44:58

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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.

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Len Sholes

11-17-2006 11:37:07

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Re: Mitsibishi ME40 Escavator in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 11-15-2006 06:44:58

Ken I can understand the frustation you are going through at your CAT dealer. Sounds like you are dealing with some young parts guy who thinks everything has to be on the computor. I would suggest you take some measurements from the links and rollers and then go back and ask to talk to one of their product support salesmen. They have a Parts Sale Kit book that tells them all of the different measurements on Caterpillar undercarriage. From this they should be able to match up your readings to something that is current.
What you need to do is measure the link height, center to center of the pins, diameter of bushing and pin, length of pin and size of pad bolt. Also count the number of links on the exisiting track. Make sure both sides of the machine have the same number of links. Sometimes a link has been removed due to internal wear and lack of track adjustment. I would also take measurements of a roller to see what current Cat part is the same. You will need the OD of it, the width (flange to flange) and the overall length of the shaft. I would also get the measurements of the mounting bolts, distance of center to center and size of bolts. From this information they should or any other undercarriage supplier have no trouble advising you what links and rollers will fit this machine.Good luck.

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Len Sholes

11-16-2006 10:21:17

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Re: Mitsibishi ME40 Escavator in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 11-15-2006 06:44:58

Ken, re your questions on the machine you are looking at. First of all you need to do a better inspection of the track rollers. I would be checking each roller for signs of excessive end play and up and down movement. Also check for signs of leakage. My experience on HEX's was that the rollers do not wear excessively on the thread area but do take a beating internally. For sure by your description the rails are shot and it looks like you need to replace the idlers assemblies. If the tracks are extended as far as you say you had better consider rebuilding the track adjusters. You should be able to go to your local Cat dealer and get prices for what ever parts you find you are going to need. Back when Cat and Mitsi formed their partnership all the Mitsi machine parts and service information was avialable to the dealers on Micro Fische. When you price out the rails you should also add in the price of half a set of hardware as the rule of thumb is that half of the pad bolts and nuts will be unusuable. As for the stick to bucket wear you need to find out if the wear is between the pin and bearings or are the bearings loose in the bore in the end of the stick. If they are loose then you need to factor in the cost of haveing the bores welded up and line bored. As for the hydraulic control problem it sounds like you will need to trace out the pilot lines and reinstall them correctly. Once you have all your costs figured out you need to add them to the asking price and then ask yourself if the machine is worth the total amount. You might want to check out some past auction results to see what these or comparable machines are selling for. You may be able to trim some costs off if you can locate used parts but I have never had any luck locating any good used U/C parts for these smaller machines.

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Ken Macfarlane

11-16-2006 13:46:26

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Re: Mitsibishi ME40 Escavator in reply to Len Sholes, 11-16-2006 10:21:17

Thanks Len. The pivot at the bucket seems tight but the linkage bars to the cylinder have a bit of play. It isn't as bad as most of the hoes I've seen with lots of hours on the but you notice it when shaking the bucket out.

My interest in it is for about 100 hours a year farting around my own property so I was thinking of building up the idler grooves or welding in plates and also welding and boring the idler for a new bushing so the tracks wouldn't come off while tooting around.

The rubber tracks priced out at 2000$ each so I'd expect steel to be even more. Cat was exceptionally unhelpful and wouldn't look up parts. The model has been listed as a Cat ME40 on many parts databases I have been looking at and it has the same undercarriage parts as the Mitsi ME40 but Cat proclaim it must have a 304.5 number or something like that. From what I can tell those are only for the newer machines. This is a 1990.

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woodboat dave

11-15-2006 13:02:37

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Re: Mitsibishi ME40 Escavator in reply to Ken Macfarlane, 11-15-2006 06:44:58

I have a MM35B mitsubishi... they are good machines. The Cat 303.5 shares many of the same parts for mine. ( same undercarriage ) Perhaps the Cat 304 or 305 parts will fit yours. They are all made in the same factory in Japan.

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