Well,
Most mecanical retracts don't give you so much hastle
But the new cheapy retracts that come with some arf kits can be troublesome!!!

If you thought that was bad try tuning the retracts on a Global Corsair. Man those have the worse design I'd ever seen.

Don't give up on the warbirds just because you got a funky set-up with this one.

Sounds like your on your way to smoothing it out