Best Pressure Washer to Clean Tractor in $400 range

Thinking of a gas powered Briggs engine (never have much luck with a Tecumseh, Honda costs to much)type with a pump in the area of 2500 PSI at about 2.5 GPM. This gives a 6,250 units of cleaning power.

Looking for suggestions about the brand of pump, wand, hose, and any other accessories that might be nice to have.

Anyone ever use a air nozzel pressure washer? I've seen one advertised (about $30) that connects to air hose and will suck up a soap solution which it sprays onto the item to be cleaned. Don't think you could get any higher pressure than the air compressor can put out (about 100 PSI). Not sure this would clean much grease.

Thanks

I'm not a pressure washer expert but I do like mine. It'll strip the bark off an oak tree in 1/2 a second at four feet with the 0 degree nozzle. I'm pretty sure it could double as a bush hog or chainsaw in a pinch.

But I'd like to echo the praise others have made for the Honda engines. My generator has one and I was so happy with it that I made sure when I bought the pressure washer that it ran on a Honda.

One pull and it starts no matter how long it has been sitting. They've done something to kill the compression until its running on its own, so the pull is nearly effortless. It is also substantially quieter than other small engines.

And besides, it's the same color as my '49 Cub.

I tried one of those air siphon cleaners, and I found it to be most useful for cleaning inside things like transmission housings, things too big for a parts washer or which you might want to clean them up without taking them off the tractor. Be very careful using them with flammable solvents, though. You are spraying a real good fuel-air mixture and you want to be darn sure you don't have any sparks, hot metal or open flame nearby.

Also, your comment about Honda engines doesn't seem to include the fact that Honda engines are, by far, the least expensive engines you can buy, based on life cycle cost. The purchase price is only a small part of the total cost. A Honda is likely to last far longer than 3-4 of most other engines. So the issue really is, how much are you going to spend over the life of the unit? The same thing applies to CAT pumps. The purchase price is high but the life cycle cost is very low. This is precisely why they are used in many commercial applications.