Got new car!!!! what the ????

Thanks guys.
dont think it is a bind? it feels smooth as silk then bam!!! it stays, take your toe and pull it up and it shoots back,
This is dangerous and my wife is beggin to drive this 4 speed.
she is a motor headed frreak and is mad because I said no!!

Does anybody have a schematic or something.
the overspring deel seems like it might be the deal.

Is it like a secondary type spring?