Shifting Cam Spring

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My name is Tom and I'm new here. This is an awesome site and I've learned so much from you guys already......most of it, a little too late.

Here is my bone head delima.....I picked up this Suzuki GZ250 off of craigslist for a song and a dance. Now I'm just going through and tweeking it restoring it back to a better state. The other day I drained the oil, or what I thought was the oil, and I backed out a plug next to the oil drain. A spring and a little metal tab fell out which produced one of those OMG moments. I down loaded your manual and parts list here and see that this is the shifting cam spring. I did see a thread on here already concerning this topic but it doesn't go into detail about how to "physically" install it and I am in hopes that someone else has experienced this before.

I have reached underneath the bike and bent a tiny piece of wire to feel around up into the drain hole hoping this is just a small cavity (cylinder shaped) so when I push this spring and tab back up into position it will just slide right back into place. Well......this cavity seems pretty large and now I am scared "crapless" that when I go to reinsert this spring and tab there is an enormous chance it will tip/fall over into the casing before I get it up into place to tension up the spring. I was thinking maybe a small blob of axil greese on the drain plug and then placing the spring onto that and then try sliding the tab back down into the spring and try installing it that way.

I'm in a real delima here. I sure dont want to crack the bottom half open. The "tab" has a little "sleeve" on it that fits perfectly down into the spring that sits on top of the drain plug. The tab also has a small indention/seat mark once again reaffirming to me that the sleeve on the tab does slip down into the spring which holds it very stable. The exploaded view on the parts list seems to show it fitting the opposite way which would be near impossible to replace from the drain plug position with the "tab" balancing on the end of the spring.

If anyone has actually performed this task and could help me on the step by step I would be gratefull for your expertice.

Thank you
Tom