Gotta love WD40
a little juice, couple skinned knuckles and muttering got the clips moved up.
after that pulled plugs easy.
Put anti-sieze and di-electric grease on new plugs and installed, caps on and bike starts great. Let it warm up and....:shock3: FORGOT TO SLIDE COOLANT HOSE CLIPS DOWN!
Now waiting for it to cool down and fix my oops.:bang head: