I am replacing the carburetor after pulling and cleaning it, how do I prime it before starting how do I get gas in the bowl

 

I saw no one answered. You don't need to prime the carbs. If it is gravity feed from the tank, which I believe is used on the VN800, there may be a PRI position, which will allow free flow from a vacuum petcock. If it has a fuel pump, the pump will get the gas to the carburetor. Either way, even if you cranked it over with the vacuum petcock in the ON or RES position the float bowls would eventually fill after maybe 10 seconds. We would drain the float bowls on bikes that sat for more than a week or two if we had to start them. You essentially have the equivalent of a drained carb set.

Hope that helps. I'm mainly here for the 250 group and because I sell cam chain tensioners for Kaws and others, but I did spend about 22 years working full and part time in a bike shop that sold Kaws/Hondas/Yamahas so I've done a bit of time around them.

Just to let you know, if you start the bike and it won't run unless on choke, you didn't get the primary circuit cleaned out. If you used a carb cleaner machine or ultrasonic cleaner that shouldn't be an issue. Just letting you know, it is a possibility if just sprayed out with carb cleaner.

Here's to good fortunes, the bike firning up and running fine and you having a good summer with it. The 800 was a favorite of mine when I was selling. Just the right size/look and Kawasaki kept some good horsepower in that engine.

 

Thank you so much for you response it is greatly appreciated and you were a world of help Joe