But when I rode it last (I have not rode enought wooden coasters to know this but...) the lisft hill was feeling off. It would pull and stop pull stop pull stop. They were breif stops but still.....It was odd. Again could be normal and I could be nutso. But to me a lift hill should be fluid.
It's been like that for as long as I can remember. A lot of the older coasters feel like that, something in the way the train engages with the lift gets a little resonance going.
Most of the older Arrow coasters were constructed piecemeal with the welding and shaping of the tubular rails being done on-site rather than having track sections manufactured off-site and put together like what is done now. This is why there is so much bouncing around even in relatively smooth areas of the ride.
As much as I hate to see the classics messed with, it's getting to the point where it wouldn't be so bad if they got someone else to come in and rebuilt TNT. It's still pretty rough in some seats, and people are growing to expect rides to be perfectly smooth these days. I would hope they would keep the layout of the first half of the ride, then build outward from there. Maybe Zierer could do it and they could add a drop-track in a tunnel or something.