probly debris in the needle and seat, keeping it from shuting off fuel flow. those are very easy carbs to clean and rebuild. they don't need rebuild kits, they have reuseable gaskets. but marines parts will sell you them. it would be best to pull all 3 carbs, take them apart, keeping everything separated, soak em' in carb/ parts cleaner over nite (NO RUBBER OR PLASTIC PARTS IN CLEANER), blow em out with compressed air, spray rubber gaskets with wd-40, and put em' back together. set air/ fuel adjusting screws ( 1 on each carb) 1 1/2 turns out. you'll have to fine tune them once the motor gets warmed up, best to fine tune on the water. remember to replace the plugs, i'm sure that 1 in the lower cylinder is fuel soaked. i dont care for those factory installed fuel filters. i like you run a paper element filter as close to the carbs as possible, i wanna see whats in the fuel line before it hits the carbs. or, if you're not worried about the other 2 carbs, you could just pull the drain plug out of the lower carb, disconnect the fuel hose from the lower carb, and spary carb cleaner in the fuel inlet, hoping to wash out debris. but, i would feel more at ease, if i all 3 carbs where cleaned. i can get a parts diagram of them carbs for you, just give me the year and model # of the motor. they are the easiest carbs i have ever had to get into, don't even have to get into timing when taking them off. good luck, rick