Thanks guys, thought I'd solved it and patted my self on the back. Went to put the glass back on and the top of the spinner bracket hit the glass 
So back to the drawing board, put the original posts in, took the spinner from the Meteor and installed it & the machine played fine with it . Made no sense to me, so I ended up taking the crappy stickers off the spinner and sanded the paint nice n flat. Ball would roll through at snails pace 90% of the time.

Final solution was to apply playfield wax to the spinner and playfield and now 100% no issue.

Now I have to solve the missing picture on the spinner. Was thinking of trying to make a stencil and paint the spinner instead of a stencil. I'll post another question in a new post on that one.

Retropin -  thanks for the offer, I was going to take you up on it, but that damn glass got in the way

Here is a pic of the final setup - still need to get a couple of washers for the spinner to keep the rod in correct spot...