A picture of the spring would help here,
I just went and looked at the spring that goes on the backside of the bracket,
IF it's this, the shorter hooks the steel peace there(Points toward rear) and longer comes around and hooks a screw on the aluminum bracket,What this spring does is works the rod from resavor using that steel peace hooked on.
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