ok, you have a reed spacer? vf3's, take the reed cage out, and your spacer, put the spacer over the reed cage and push up on the bottom of the reed cage where the petals are, there might be too much leniency between the spacer and reed cage, you might have broken your reeds, check them out also, because everytime you hit the gas the inertia is pushing the reed set out of the casing, trust me your symptoms are the same as mine, it was very much a pain in the ass