carby cleaner and a green kitchen scotch brite work ok on the combustion chambers and ports you can use degreaser too just clean everything up in some petrol afterward then dry it and give it a light oiling when you are ready to put it back together.
Make sure when you pull the push rods out to place them down in the order they came out, since they are happy already in that order!
C.R.C gasket stripper works fantastic on disolving old gasket gunk.
be careful with the torque wrench when you put the head back on I have seen my mate snap a stud when torqing down a head on a gemini, apparently the KINGCHROME wrench which was brand new was out of calibration! he tried to torque the head down to 60ftlb and ping she broke off! but with a bit of drilling and stud extraction we were back on the road later that day!