Replacement skid steer engine DEAD on arrival! How did this happen?

Crimping and installing all new pilot hoses on an excavator - Hitachi EX120-2

Assembly begins on the excavator! Wiring harness, valve block install - Hitachi EX120-2

A Cat skid steer for $4500! How could I go wrong?

Painting my excavator frame in non-ideal conditions (Hitachi EX120-2)

Stripping my excavator down to the frame - Hitachi EX120-2

Working with a $4000 mini-excavator (AGT H12R)

Building a tree house - How hard can it be?

Excavator hydraulic pump full rebuild...Can it be done by an amateur? (Hitachi EX120-2)

I bought an UNUSED 70-year old ROLLS-ROYCE crate engine! How bad could it be?

First time operating a bulldozer - FINALLY putting the Cat D4-7U to work!

Hydraulic pump on a 30 year old excavator: How worn out is it? (Hitachi EX120-2)

Starting the rebuilt excavator engine for the first time (Hitachi EX120-2/4BD1T)

Finishing the excavator engine rebuild - Isuzu 4BD1T/Hitachi EX120-2

Excavator engine build - Mistakes and headaches (Isuzu 4BD1T/Hitachi EX120-2)

Excavator engine rebuild: short block assembly (Hitachi EX120-2/Isuzu 4BD1T)

Rebuilding an excavator engine: prepping the block (Hitachi EX120-2/Isuzu 4BD1T)

Excavator valve control block assembly - Hitachi EX120-2 rebuild

Excavator Rebuild: valve control block disassembly - Hitachi EX120-2

Caterpillar D4-7U cold start (no pony motor or ether)

Excavator Rebuild: valve block removal - Hitachi EX120-2

Removing the stick cylinder using viewer advice - excavator project

Removing and disassembling hydraulic cylinders - excavator project

More bad luck! Excavator engine refresh doesn't go as planned (Isuzu 4BD1T)

Excavator project - Cab and fuel/hydraulic tank removal, plus visiting a scrapyard

9100 hours on this excavator engine...how worn out is it? Isuzu 4BD1T

Firewood 2023 - splitting 8 cords of wood in the dark

No going back now! Pulling the engine out of my excavator

Rebuilding the center joint and more pressure washing - Excavator project

Excavator swing device rebuild part 2 of 2 (Hitachi EX120-2)