Running it on the garden hose right now. I know it will run different
with water, but it's puffing LOTS of smoke on land. I've seen outboads
(Johnson's) after a days fishing flushing engines at the marina. They
don't seem to smoke like mine.

One more question. I took the VRO pump out to replace it and noticed a
little "thing" below it. It's round and has a small red handle with a
schrader valve (sp?) on it. What is it and what does it do?

thank,
-Terry Quan