Was there a reason you did the initial teardown.
Yes, the motor runs very poorly at idle and I was getting surging and random loss of power. It felt like I was losing a cylinder sporadically and I was convinced it was an ignition problem (still may be). I was pretty sure it wasn't fuel related since my filter stayed full and my carb was pretty clean and could see the fuel stream with the cowl off and moving at high throttle in the water.
So to be safe I went ahead and cleaned the carb and installed new gaskets and a new inlet needle and while I had it off checked the reeds. I reinstalled a couple nights ago and last night I changed my inline filter, fuel hose, and connected to a portable tank with fresh fuel/oil mix.I pumped the bulb and it got hard. Before deciding to try to start it, I decided to do a quick compression test (I have been putting it off). I got barely anything, like 20 psi, on the top cylinder and 120 psi on the bottom two, done with all plugs removed. My last compression test was done last summer and it was 90/110/110 psi and I did that test with the plugs still in. I have yet to pull the head as I am waiting on a new gasket in the mail but looking through the plug holes with a flashlight, the top cylinder definitely has more carbon build up on top of the piston than the other two. I am in limbo until I get the new gasket although I will go ahead and pull the head when I get the shipping notification.
In the meantime is there anything I can do? Such as add seafoam directly to the plug hole to soak in the chamber or add 2 stroke oil to it and retry the compression test?