[Cracker]

First, I know better than to start any repair late on a Friday evening. Second, think about what you’re doing before you start. Anyway, the forward bracket on my slide-out apparently caught a tree at sometime in it’s past and got bent. I wanted to straighten it. This is the left-end bracket where you apply the tension but, regardless, I removed it without incident and straightened the bracket on my bench vice. When reinstalling the bracket I re-tensioned the spring in the wrong direction - discovered my stupid mistake - and released the tension to start over. When I started tensioning it in the correct direction this is where things went to hell. Whatever was holding the other end of the spring let loose and now there’s no resistance when I try to apply tension. It just rotates easily. It looks like I’ll have to pop the rivets on the end cap and pull everything out of the tube - but can anyone tell me what to expect? Did I break something, or does it just have to be re-attached?