Like I mentioned in my post, I just put together things quickly in order to show how the spring was situated. Yes, I left out the gasket/seal, and didn't even attach the lid to the body, or the actuator to the lid. That alone would have brought the lid down. If everything was hooked up, the lid would only be up about half of what it shows in the pics. The original poster was concerned about how the spring went on. I tried to show that, and wasn't concerned about the rest of the installation.