took the v out for the first time today and....

[jamesbalog]

took the boat out for the first time since the new to me motor and all the other nonsense i did to it. motor started right up and idled great... once i got on the throttle a bit it would bog down around 3k rpms. this is the first time the motor has been run under a load in atleast two years


first thing that came to my mind is the carbs probably need to come off and get cleaned/ maybe rebuilt... anything else that you guys could think of that may be causing this?


motor is an 81 merc 200. it has less than 500 hours on it