TT250: Extreme problem replacing foot pegs - spring issue

[Marc Hufnagel]

Just got the TT250 and the pointy-sharp billet aluminum (I think) fancy foot pegs. Pulled off the one stock one and for the life of me cannot get the new one on.

It centers around the spring and despite doing other bikes this one is kicking my butt. I just cannot get the spring back in there; despite having a picture of how it supposed to look. Every video I pull up on youtube seems to have different spring shape/size. I'll attach a picture of what it is SUPPOSED to look like but I just can't figure out how to get it in without parts flying away from me lol.