[Ron Wood]

The topic of a floppy safety lever has come up several times in the past. I don't recommend clamping it in a vise to bend it. The method I use is to lay the lever on a hard surface over a small diameter drill bit and press down on both ends. This will gently "re-arch" the lever. You can sneak up on the proper arch by using increasing diameter drill bits, but go slow and don't over do it.

Also years ago I couldn't convince a forum member that you couldn't drive out the pin from the bottom. He actually started grinding on frame at the top end of the pin to "free it up". I drew this diagram to illustrate the proper way but it still took a couple of posts to get the message across.