TB and a vacuum line question

[red_gsx]

Wanted to take the car out today and noticed a throttle cable problem. I was using the throttle cable to raise the rpms and I'm guessing it came loose from the circle wheel it rides on (don't know a better way to describe it). The when I was trying to reseat the cable, the metal that's all wrapped up (see picture) uncoiled on me. <img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c198/artem_tb/HPIM0071.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
That whole silver coil is very loose and does not have much tension anymore. I tried taking the silver hook piece of the coil (to the right of the green one in the picture) and winding it back a full 360 degrees but it is not possible. I took the tb off to get a better picture of the whole mess and noticed another problem.
<img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c198/artem_tb/HPIM0070.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
Is that supposed to be capped off? There were no hoses connected to it and it's been that way for a while now.
Any help you guys could provide on either of these issues would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[steve]

The VFAQs on changing the throttle shaft seals will show you how to rewind the springs.
http://www.ca.dsm.org/faq/tb-shaftseals.html
http://www.plymouthlaser.com/tbor.htm

Those metal lines are to bring the vacuum lines across the back of the engine and to the solenoids on the firewall. As long as the ports on the throttle body are plugged the metal tubes are ok being uncapped.

Steve

 

[red_gsx]

Thanks alot those pages are exactly what I needed.