diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index bea5a04..a743297 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -232,15 +232,6 @@ class CLIPLoaderGGUF:
             embedding_directory = folder_paths.get_folder_paths("embeddings"),
         )
         clip.patcher = GGUFModelPatcher.clone(clip.patcher)
-
-        # for some reason this is just missing in some SAI checkpoints
-        if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_l", None) is not None:
-            if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model.clip_l.transformer.text_projection.weight, "tensor_shape", None) is None:
-                clip.cond_stage_model.clip_l.transformer.text_projection = comfy.ops.manual_cast.Linear(768, 768)
-        if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model, "clip_g", None) is not None:
-            if getattr(clip.cond_stage_model.clip_g.transformer.text_projection.weight, "tensor_shape", None) is None:
-                clip.cond_stage_model.clip_g.transformer.text_projection = comfy.ops.manual_cast.Linear(1280, 1280)
-
         return clip
 
     def load_clip(self, clip_name, type="stable_diffusion"):
diff --git a/ops.py b/ops.py
index 378d21e..22342a0 100644
--- a/ops.py
+++ b/ops.py
@@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ class GGMLLayer(torch.nn.Module):
             elif k[prefix_len:] == "bias" and v is not None:
                 self.bias = torch.nn.Parameter(v, requires_grad=False)
             else:
-                missing_keys.append(k)
+                unexpected_keys.append(k)
+        # For Linear layer with missing weight
+        if self.weight is None and isinstance(self, torch.nn.Linear):
+            v = torch.zeros(self.in_features, self.out_features)
+            self.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(v, requires_grad=False)
+            missing_keys.append(prefix+"weight")
 
     def _save_to_state_dict(self, *args, **kwargs):
         if self.is_ggml_quantized():