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</head><body><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">When I dismantled my wobbly, rusted '59 TR3 in 2004, it had been sitting in a shed since 1974. I took snapshots of everything to help me remember how to put it back together. Since then, I've looked at countless other pictures searched from various sources as I repaired this or that. I imagine we all have. What I never realized and didn't realize I didn't realize until I realized it...heh heh...was that the return spring for the accelerator linkage connects to a little tab on the firewall. </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">All these years I'd been using a hole I'd drilled into the manifold heat shield with a guesstimated spring strength. The angle I'd been using was seems to me weaker. Plus the replacement spring I ordered is about 25% stiffer than the one I'd been using. Result was the car never consistently dropped back to true idle. <br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Now for the first time I'm probably getting the true "feel" of how an original TR3 operated. <br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We keep learning new stuff, huh?<br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Terry Smith, '59 TR3A TS 58667<br></p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">New Hampshire<br></p><p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:#333333;" class="default-style"><br id="ox-666775d96a" style="word-wrap: break-word;" class=""></p></body></html>