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do yourself a favor and read the service manual on how to replace the spring. you do not need vise grips, pliers, a roll of pennies, etc.
to make it easy, you can do like bigheadted and lay the bike over on the right, or you could just have someone hold it level for you. take off the jiffy stand stop tab, and swing the jiffy forward. put the spring on, swing the jiffy stand back into position, and put the stop tab back on. takes all of 3 minutes, and no sweating, cussing, punching yourself in the nose when the vise grips slip, etc.
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