if you are just going to replace the valve springs or retainers and not the valves, you can do so without ever removing the head, which saves $$ on a HG.
-Take 1/4 cotton rope, 10 ft. long at least.
-Remove the spark plugs.
-Whichever cylinder you're replacing the valve springs on, feed between 6-9 ft of rope in the cylinder while that cylinder is a Bottom Dead Center.
-Turn the crankshaft pulley with a socket(Either 19mm or 17mm, can't remember) until the piston is nearly TDC or the pulley is hard toturn anymore.
-NOW, you can remove your valve springs/retainers without the valves falling or removing the head.
Just a neat trick i learned one day from a mechanic.
You'll have to remove the head to replace the valves though. There's no way around it.
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