Hoover Height Adjustment Le...
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Part 161513 is the spring behind the height-adjustment lever on Hoover Convertible upright vacuums, holding tension so the lever stays put at whichever carpet-pile setting you choose instead of creeping out of position on its own.
A spring is about as simple as a part gets, but one that has stretched thin or snapped changes the machine's behavior right away. The lever feels slack instead of snapping firmly between positions, or the nozzle height drifts down toward the floor mid-clean even though you never touched the dial. Replacing this small spring is far simpler and cheaper than replacing the whole lever assembly it operates. Springs fail by fatigue rather than by any single dramatic event, losing a small amount of tension with every cycle of use until the cumulative loss finally shows up as a lever that will not hold. That gradual pattern is why owners often describe the fault as something that crept in slowly rather than something that happened all at once.
The Hoover Convertible line ran for decades under a long list of similar model numbers, and this spring services a long list of them, as the compatibility list below shows.
- Part: 161513, height-adjustment lever spring
- Function: holds tension so the lever locks at the selected carpet height
- Fits: Hoover 1030, C1065, C1069, C1085, C1091, C1111, C1123, C1125, C1401, C1405, C1407, C1425, C1429, C1431, C1439, C1515, C1525, C1529, C1627, C1629, C1631, U4125, U4313, U4387, U4451, U4497, U4525, U7033, U7045, U7047, U7057, U7059, U7063, U7067, U7079
- Symptom it fixes: a height lever that loses its setting under load, or a nozzle that drifts low during use
Check your model number against the list above, since Hoover reused this spring across more than thirty Convertible-era uprights.