1982 xc430 Kickstarter skip prim and locks up

For some reason my kicker feels like it is skipping some teeth once in a while and also completely locks engine sometimes while kicking. All seemed fine until I put on the newer dogleg kicker and kicked it a few times. I can move kicker back and forth a little and it frees up. Not sure what happened....I have not taken off left side cover yet. I hope it's a simple issue?!

Sounds like there's a problem between the little pawl that engages the gear to start it.

First you must take it apart and inspect all your kicking gears!! The one on the back of clutch ring gear, the idle gear and kick gear. Could be first sign that
the rings small gear is tearing. It a big issue in all the primary kick gears bikes. It could end up hurting your cases. Double check that your case is not cracked also.

I would check this first. Even with perfect cases, idle and kick gear bearings, good clutch ring gear. This gear can catch and bind and tear. Sometimes during kickback on starting.

The early clutch ring gears are not heat treated in 81 82 years.

This is only to check the worst case scenario first and hope it is just a simple fix