I bought it from Komatsu dealer in Casper WY. It was under a service contract since early 14 with the casper office. Prior to that it was at Komatsu in Salt Lake. Looks like in late 12 early 13 the Salt Lake dealer installed a new engine per the service records I received.Does it have the Cummins clone engine or a genuine Komatsu engine? What you likely have is gray market machine that was stolen some time in the past. There isn't much reason to worry about that now as there are no records kept on used machinery that would identify who owned it in the past. As far as I can remember that model of machine was never made available to dealers through normal channels.
Is there any way to verify that or confirm hours if it has the original digital hour meter or can that be easily bypassed ? ThanksAt that age it wouldn't be surprising for the machine to have more that twice that amount of hours.