Yes. It turns clockwise as viewed from this perspective.

I just looked at Ol' Roy's spring. It hooks into the slot from the "bottom up". Yours is hooked from the top down.

Maybe remove the spring, rotate it 180 degrees clockwise , and insert the tang into the slot from the bottom up.

That gives you a little more "oomph" on the tension.

1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)

1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)