Just a heads up before you think about buying a used recoil spring from a parted out machine. To be installed per the factory, the spring sets in it's spot in the roller frame housing, and is under tension against the frame, not the bolt. In other words the through bolt you are looking for has only one purpose, to hold the spring under tentson, in a short enough condition to install it into and remove it from the machine. Basically the spring assembly is put together a bit short, and when the assembly is in it's spot the nut on the end of the through bolt is backed off until the bolt is no longer under any tension at all, and all of the spring force is being held by the track frame. Talk to your machine shop about this and they may be more inclined to help when they know the througbolt is basically nothing more than an instillation/removal tool.
I say that to say this. The majority of the time the through bolts on the recoil springs get so corroded that you can't use them to collapse the spring enough to get it out of it's spot. When this happens the only way to remove a spring is to cut it, multiple times, in order to relieve the tension on it.(I cut the ones on the 977 I did about 6 more times...and they were each already broken in 5or 6 places already) That being the case when one is removed from a parts machine, 99.99999999999% of the time it's going to have to be junked/cut to get even get it out, otherwise they may have jerked it out somehow and it most likely will be too long to go back into it's mount on the new machine without being compressed and held there....by the screwed up through bolt that wasn't usable when it was removed from the donor.
Didn't think to mention this in my last post, but after seeing a few relies about getting one from a junk machine I thought I ought to bring it up so you'd know. Good luck.
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