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Message: <blockquote data-quote="laurencen" data-source="post: 134231" data-attributes="member: 14082">couple years ago I had a Jacobson mower, had it cutting grass for years then it finally died, filled it up ran for a short time and died again, got it in the shop and tried to drain the tank nothing other than drips, pulled the drain plug nothing, syphoned the tank and bottom was sludge, used a long 1 inch Polly tube on shopvac and pulled half a tub of slime out, washed the tank and been good since.the sludge appeared to be leaves, grass and rotted away, I assume previous owner left gas cap off for years and stuff fell into the tank, took that long to decompose</blockquote>