I finally got it. I ended up cutting a piece of leather from a boot, wrapped it around the small end of the threaded steel rod ( rough side down ) and held it with a pair of vise grips. I had to make another slotted screw driver and finally got it The spring looks like a hardware spring that has been monkeyed with. On the cap you can see a small hole that has been drilled that the long straight part of the spring slides through ( the end of the spring I could see ). I doubt the small hole drilled in the cap was done at the factory, it was still rough, still had the metal that the bit pushed out when it was drilled. The spring looks like a modified, hardware store return spring. However, never having seen an original spring for the carrier I'm not sure.


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