Chinese Mini Hoe, Upgrades, Mods, and DIY Accessories 

You're providing excellent help to us newbees on the Mini Ecavators. Keep up the good work.

Right on Ron it’s good to see a new video from you! Nice little excavator man! I’m glad your shoulder is getting better, I messed up mine and it was bothering me for about 2 years, luckily it’s now better. I’m looking forward to see more videos on this machine 😊👍

Best video on these machines hands down!!!!!! Thank you

My friend I have never commented on line. Haven’t even watch this whole video yet. But you’ve already said exactly what I’m thinking. Thanks man.

I have been to most of the Princess Auto stores in western Canada and a few of the Harbor Freight stores in the Paciific Northwest and have found the stores vary greatly in what they carry. Some are well stocked with everything and some not so much. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses. I am lucky as I am between either of these stores and depending on what I need, I can go to the one that meets my needs. Enjoy your journey with your machine.

I had a good laugh as you were describing the fireball scenario 😂 Glad you got it put out quickly! I looking forward to the future upgrades and attachments!

Fantastic initiative this series, good video, clear explanation. Thanks a lot, new follower

Thanks, I can’t stand the RU-vid OSHA police. I like how you tell them to go away right from the get go. Subscribed!

Thanks for starting this project mod channel. Im in exactly the same place on my little mini excavator. I also used the 8” Princess ram but decided to adapt the fitting on the hoe to a quick connect set up to make it easy to switch attachments. I modified the manual thumb a bit to take the cylinder and it works well. Rather than remove the hoe brackets I made two plates to bolt through the existing holes and designed them to move the top of the ram a bit higher to allow nearly full retraction to the boom arm. I can seem to figure out how to attache phots but I can share if anyone is interested. Now to figure out how to make a post home auger for it.

As soon as I saw those cam latches, I knew you hinged the rear cover. I did the same thing on my QH12. I also add a fan behind the left engine panel, to help cool the engine and force hot air out through the housing holes. I also replaced the stock operating light, with a pair of better lights. Fabbed a matching mount for the opposite side of the boom. My hour meter was also broken, so I replaced it with a Tusk Rocky Mountain ATV-MC meter. Mount screws actually line up with the stock meter screws. I'm working on adapting a tilt bucket, but the hoses it came with had smaller DIN fittings. The ram didn't have any fittings. I just got those today. After that I plan to convert my mechanical thumb to hydraulic, so I'll be watching your video. The Typhon kit is about $350, so hopefully I can same $ fabbing it. Did you add an oil drain valve? I got one with a hose so oil drainage can be directed to the pan.

Welcome back and happy new year. Looking forward for new nice videos. Best wishes from Germany. Sven

Glad your doing better :)

I got the same machine. You should sell those brackets you made for the cylinder. Nice video

I really want to watch you do the work. You dont need to explain I will see :)

Thank you

Good to see you back Any plans for the Zuk this year ?

I would think NAPA should be able to closely match the paint . I will need some matching paint as i welded guards to protect my hydraulic fittings and also built a ripper tooth. Great video will be following you for more mods. From D.V. ab

nice to see your back , love the zuk vids too, God Bless

Can u pls tell me which hose routes to the hydraulic filter housing? I have a QH12R that doesn’t have one and I’d like to install one. Is there a return outlet hose? Or is the outlet port just blocked off? Thank u!

Hi, Great video. I just got the same machine and liked what you did with the back cover. I want to copy that on my machine. Do you remember the width on the hinge? I need to order one and don't want to get one too wide or too narrow. I also see that they come in stainless, I was thinking that might be nice. Thanks in advance and keep up the great work.

Finally videos showing the flaws and the fixes. Thank you! I bought mine the same way, only at an auction, and am having zero luck. It never ran "good", but it ran. I used it for only about 5 hours and parked it. When I started it to move it in my shed, it smoked like a fog machine and started blowing oil out of the exhaust. So, when I unscrewed the oil dipstick, gas came rushing out!!! Any thoughts? Im handy, but not your level of handy. I also would appreciate anyone that has had a similar situation. Im hoping its a carb issue, or a head gasket, but afraid its a piston ring. Thanks

Does it come with a oil cooler?

seller probably not lying. i did the same, was bidding on silent auctions, and within the last 10 seconds, I won 5. Not expecting to, so I had to become a reseller real quick like!

Most ladies will agree with you that the eight inch stroke is better then the six inch stroke. 🤣😂🤣

Yeah im sure the guy accidentally spent $35,000 at an auction lol. When I got mine they asked me how many I wanted, I said 1

Thank you