Sounds like you have the wrong legs which is why it sits really high you may have a set of 31 inch legs.
    As for the speed a goodnpolish and wax may speed it up

Thanks, I will buy some wax and see what happens....my young bloke reckons its the flippers, they dont have enough "grunt".....they seem to move ok to me, is this a possibility?

If I chock the back legs up real high, it plays faster but there is no way you can shoot the balls into the ramps etc, if I have the machine levelled normally I can shoot up ramps etc but I reckon I could write a book in the time it takes for the ball to go from top  to bottom.