904 kickdown lever spring tension?

I still have the factory linkage, however there is no spring tension pushing the factory rod that bolts to the carb forward. Shouldn’t the lever on the trans have some spring tension in it to push the lever forward? Right now there is nothing.

It is supposed to be held forward by a spring on the rod up at the carb on some, or a spring from the pivot at the firewall end to a loop on the TP rod.
The rod should be held all the way forward by the spring.
I'll locate a couple of pics for ya and post em.

Ok, well hopefully you have this style of linkage because I don't see the older style where the rod actually hass the tab on the side of it for the spring.

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