2022 SANY SY245H Crawler Excavator

I drove the Sany 245H excavator to the middle of the site, started the engine, and the startup went very smoothly. I stood and listened for about 10 minutes. There was no smoke when it started. The valve mechanism did not make any strange knocking or ticking sounds. It only made the normal diesel engine sound for a machine of this size. The condition was quite good. Dwell on this response, there’s no lag or jerking when cycling the boom and stick, nor is the pump pressure dropping, which means the pump still has good pressure and control valves are not ‘sloppy’ yet. Hard to say off the hand how much is not gone on the tracks after a look through the pads, the rollers are spinning freely, sprockets maybe 5-10% gone, but still enough meat on the pad and the sprockets still have teeth remaining if it had been pulled.

On the inside everything is sheathed in plastic, one would assume that it was just brought off a vessel, but I suppose it could be someone just trying to keep up the appearance for the photographer as the seat still has some life below the plastic and monitor booted up just fine, all gauges were functioning normally, fuel was about 50% and coolant temp checked out without spikes. Apparently, they have red rags on the joysticks which I suppose is how they distinguish inventory here, or whatever. Swing bearing feels very tight when it rotates the house, no grinding or clunking is good since it is a 15k job if it fails. Visual check at the counterweight and around the swing motor area (hello, I must check my notes here… Right, looked at the hydraulic lines, etc, etc, all dry, just old dirt and dust caked on, so whilst I do have a surprise here, that it’s a Chinese machine, SANY’s stepped up their quality in the last few years might be why.You can use Bucket’s all the while until the edge wears down, which it does like you would expect; the cutting edge is rounded off but should last a few hundred hours before it becomes necessary to flip or change Bucket’s; the teeth are comfortable gone but most guys have their own set up. The Pins and Bushings at stick and boom joints have a very slight slop not to the alarming extent, maybe a Mil of movement from rocking back and forward normal for a good working machine, if it was dead dead zero, then I’m wondering if something is broken. The boom is loaded with scratches and paint is peeling off the counterweight and some scuffs on the boom from brush or loading trucks. Cleaner than I thought up under my engine, no oil puddling under the oil pan, fuel separator filter doesn’t look like it has been in a while, no bulges or cracks in the hoses, The inspection was made during a rather cool temperature so it was not able to go through a full cycle under load , however, it was a good performer!