Okay so looked at it this morning, and thought i could hear a scraping/dragging sound when i was turning the flywheel by hand. So i thought maybe a coil heel was dragging. Pulled the flywheel checked everything, point gaps good. coils were fine. Couldn’t see any issue, but I had a blown 4 hp evinrude in the shed, went and got the flywheel and magneto which had good coils and points and condensers on it already, and Switched over to the Johnson power head torqued it down, put in the barrel started on third pull. No dragging /scrapping sound now. Starts good hot or cold. Not sure what the issue was, could flywheel be warped? Will have a closer look but nothing really jumps out as an issue. New one for me that is for sure.

Bill