I need to replace the spring on a 1985 300d CA, the darn thing is way wedged down and with lots of things in the way, my regular and longest needle nose plyers wont reach very well, are there any tricks to this? or do i just need even longer plyers?

I had to go look at mine -- didn't know about that spring, thanks. Maybe you could get at it from underneath? You can't even see the top of the spring from above, only the bottom, and it would take really long pliers.

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I just got a set of straight 16 inch plyers, Ill be busy trying to get the spring in place, i had the wrong size in the car, this was way beefy and fat and it was so strong that it broke the throttle linkage bushing,yikes..