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I hope you all don't get tired of my questions..... As I've mentioned before, I bought my 46 Plymouth in 1980, and it was already mostly dismantled (engine out & in pieces, possibly never having been installed in this car; front clip off & dismantled, etc), then I took more stuff apart, before leaving in for 35 + years. Then the next year I bought a 49 (1st series), and pulled the (blown) engine, keeping the parts that were still good (the block had a good sized hole in the side). Also, my brother & I also dismantled a couple of other post-war MoPars, so parts get mixed up after that many years. And memory fades..... I have two identical brackets of some sort here, each side shown below in the first photo. One was quite pitted from rust. I suspect both of these came with the 46, because I was working at a plating shop during those years, and didn't plate as many of the parts from the 49 as from the 46. (Cadmium) I've looked through the parts book (PDF from this site), and I can't find anything that looks like this. Then the four springs. I reckon that one of these must be the clutch fork return ("pull back") spring, but which one? I guess I could just try them out different places, at least for the clutch return, but I don't know where the others might go. The second one down from the top was considerably more rusted before I plated it, so it was probably under the car someplace, or maybe for the hood release return? Any help is much appreciated! (I know the top picture is rather blurry - I have a time trying to get my camera to get photos of these small parts in focus. I should have also put the tape measure in that photo as well, but the whole bracket is about 4" or so long.)