The heat riser clang...

If it clangs your bi metalic heat spring must be gone..
Now that I took another look at the TSM in the book tryimg to see what the bimetal spring is.
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Thermostat spring is there, if you mean the little 'anti-rattle' spring that is missing now. Wasn't missing a couple months ago, but nowhere to be seen now.