loosing power/backfire through carb

Your compression isn't great but should be adequate. Try putting a timing light on each plug wire in turn and see if there is any crossfiring or odd spark sequences. All plugs should have a regular, even spark pattern. If that check out, I'd be tempted to swap out the carb with a known good one just to see if that makes a difference. Backfiring through the carb on decelleration is pretty rare.

thanks I will try that tomorrow.