What is a good Pressure Washer pump?

[Red Horse]

I believe I have this same pressure washer and it has lasted for probably twenty years with heavy use. If I was buying a new pump, I learned (the hard way) to make sure your water system supplies enough water for your pump, some rural well systems can't manage it. My caution to my kids is to shut off pressure washer if you are not spraying to avoid overheating the pump, to put antifreeze through the pump before winter and to buy a pump that has a rebuild kit, in my case an AR pump. Maybe useful.

Dave- All points-good advice. What is the best way to get antifreeze in the pump? Pull the big nut on each piston and pour it in?

 

[clemsonfor]

I had a Northern tool PW and it was a lower end consumer one. When i looked up the part number on the pump it was more or the same pice as a new comparable unit from NT. I got a cheap china copy from a coworker that i got free for looking at it and trying to fix it. I told them i could fix it but by the time i charged them for my time you would be into it what a new one cost and to buy a new one. I bought a replacement pump off ebay. Its one of those verticle kinds. I think with the new nozzels i bought i am $130 or so into it?