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The spring is about 3/4 inch long. The piece that broke of was the hook on the other side of the spring. I would imagine you're holding a spring with a hook at one end, about 5 or 6 coils then it ends with a jagged edge. At least with mine it was. And yes, look at the other door to see where it goes. As you're looking at the actuator in the driver door, the spring will go on the upper left side holding two levers together. It'll probably be on the upper right side on your passenger door. You won't be able to miss it!!
finding a replacement spring was difficult. For me at least. I was stuck on finding one the same size and gauge steel. You don't need it to be the same gauge steel. The length is important. You can try Orchard and Home Depot. They carry springs. I went with a spring that was smaller gauge thickness of steel but was about the same length and it works fine. It's pretty cramped in there so you may have to remove or adjust the anti-lock picker flange thingy that Toyota put right in the way of you being able to put the spring on. Like I said, I had to drill mine with 5 or 6 holes in order to bend it out of the way so I could put the spring on. I tried to grind it off with a dremel but couldn't get the right angle on it. Also thought of my Makita Sawsall but felt I might damage the actuator behind the flange. I mostly bent the flange thing out of the way because it looked like such a large pain in the a$$ to remove the actuator from the door. There just isn't much room to move around in there as you've probably already noticed!!!
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