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Is the spring in the correct position? Looks angled kinda odd in the pic. Maybe try disconnecting the cable at both ends, and test to see if it is binding.
Internal or external? If it's external, see what you can do about moving things around. May be bad bushings in the linkage, which is pretty easy to fix.