What make macbook TRACKPAD click back uP?!

Hello, I just replaced the topcase to a macbook. The trackpad stopped clicking. I know about the torx screw that you can tighten/loosen to adjust the click. That isn't the problem. When I hold the topcase upside down. It clicks and then drops back down due to gravity. Theoretically everything as far as the "clicking" works. However, when I sit it down so that I would be typing...and I click. It just goes down and never "pops" back up. I do not think their is a spring that makes it pop up. Does anyone know what makes it resist gravity and make it go up again? I did this all with the battery out...so it's not a battery bulge either. I took it down to the barebones, JUST the top case. Is there a magnet that is supposed to make it click back up when you click down on the trackpad? Any ideas...please tell me. I spent hours trying to figure this out. Thanks in advance.

I guess nobody knows, I figured it out. Underneath the screw there is a type of metal "bubble" think of a lid that "pops up" when you open up a bottle of pickles or whatever. This is what is underneath the trackpad that keeps it poping up and down.

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