Quote Originally Posted by Jimmytee View Post
Anyone else find that pesky spring to be a PIA? I work on my own bikes and am a HVAC-R service technician, so I am used to do things mechanical, but the spring forced some sailor language out of me and I was Army. The difficulty was with trying to grip that spring and pull it far enough to hook around the point on the center stand. I ended up using a needle nose vise grip coupled with a 4 ft. squeeze clamp to pull the spring.
I used the method of placing 11 ea. flat washers between the spring coils! The spring stretches in length and drops onto the posts. Simply remove each washer with pliers and the spring is in place.

Here's one of the original Threads/Post on the subject

http://hondaf6b.com/showthread.php?1...tand-Installed

I would suggest you do some searches on topics such as the spring install etc. There have been efforts by many folks and remedies have been suggested for most if not all of the problems with accessories/components of the 6