Outdoor Power Equipment and Small Engines - craftsman lawn tractor

my neighbor has a craftsman lawn tractor model # 917271022 and the
# serial is 111998c022265 the engine is a kohlor model #
cv155 the family # skh426016. i dont know the year of this or
the engine size. it has a wiring problem. the wires that come out of the stator. one wire joins a yellow and a black wire. it burnt the connector into. when you put it back together it blows a fuse. put a meter on it the black wire coming from the wiring harness was hot when the key is on .i cant find the problem

I'd say the diode in the stator wire is blown and the stator may be shorted. This sounds like one of the ones that doesn't have the rectifier, so check the diode by putting one test lead on ground and another on the stator wire. Check ohms, then reverse the leads and put red where black was, and visa-versa. You should have continuity one way but not the other. If you have continuity both ways, the diode is shorted.

thanks again ill try that