SP-20 Rollers rattling

Hi! I apologize for my lack of knowledge in describing this issue, but our back roller rattles a lot when printing/inking. We had a screw break off in the assembly that holds the form roller support area on. We know we need to extract this eventually, but we haven’t been able to so far. The whole area that holds the rollers on the form roller gear side—the bearing block assembly? is tilted backwards like there is something that used to support it but doesn’t anymore. On the opposite side (handle side of the press), it is level and doesn’t rock/move.

We removed the L brackets that lift up the rollers because they were getting in the way of leveling the rollers when raising/lowering them. Is this okay to leave these off permanently? Or am I causing some kind of issue by doing this?

The spring underneath the form roller support is intact and working well from what I can tell.

Is there a screw/rod/other support missing that would keep the form roller support (if I am using the right term) level and keep it from jumping/rocking? It is low on the back roller side (gear side).

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Sorry about this double posting! My thing timed out.