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Technically he's right. Toyota doesn't sell the spring by itself so you need to buy the whole actuator to get the spring you need. Or you can go get a spring yourself and put it in. I found my spring on an older Toy van in a Pick n' Pull salvage yard. First you need to retrieve the broken spring in the bottom of your door to get an idea of how big the spring is so you can replace it. I had my 15 year old daughter fish it out because my arm was to big to get it to the bottom of the door. The next thing is to determine where the spring goes on the actuator. You can look at the other door for that. Now my 91 had a metal flange covering most of the actuator probably as an anti lock picking device so I had to drill a bunch of wholes in it in to weaken it so I could bend it out of the way in order to get the new spring on. Taking the actuator off seemed to be such a pain due to the small space you have to work in. So with that metal flange out of the way, putting the new spring on was a breeze using needle nose pliers. If you still have locking hemostats from your teenage years, they would work fine too. On the driver side, the spring attaches on the upper left side of the actuator. Good luck!
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