yes it makes a difference, the spring keeps a tension on pieces to make for positive movement, you'll be jamming up quite often - see spring here, if it's totally missing someone has had the box apart
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics
