99.999% of the time, the spring side of the clutch disc is indeed to the transmission. So the guys saying it's to the transmission side are correct, normally. But that's not the case with the 5VZ according to the toyota factory service manual. If I've got the link working right, the below should be a clickable copy of the page of the fsm showing what I described. Otherwise, the image is on photobucket, fox-trapper, t-100, cl19

[img][image]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f48/fox-trapper/t-100/th_cl19.jpg[/img][/image]

'97 T-100 SR5
'86 Toyota's, the variety pack (all gone)