Either way, there has to be SOMETHING causing the peaking coil L42 to get hot, and I had serious doubts that it had anything to do with the sync / AGC area (C59,C60), him unhooking them confirmed this, so it has to be something with the current path in the flyback transformer pins 1 & 5, which also includes the resistor net to ground off C96, there is no way to know if the 2w ones he put in there are not up to the job, but there is no way to know if they are as well, but if he does have a 66m 6k resistor that's made for just this situation, best to try it and see if it helps.
