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CKain(MI)

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Its a TroyBilt 14.5 hp with metal flywheel cover. It does not keep the battery up. I measure 5.3 VAC at the plug from the stator. Is the stator shot??
 
You need to measure AC voltage at the rectifier/voltage regulator.
If you are measuring across the two (usually) outside leads/lugs on that plug then the stator is done.
AC voltage should be mid-30's at high idle engine speed.
DC voltage is measured across the battery (usually middle) lead and should be over 13.5 at high idle engine speed.
Video about troubleshooting.
 
(quoted from post at 16:26:23 05/19/23) Its a TroyBilt 14.5 hp with metal flywheel cover. It does not keep the battery up. I measure 5.3 VAC at the plug from the stator. Is the stator shot??
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t's usually the regulator.
 
Throwing this out there since the engine manufacturer was not mentioned.

If it is a Kohler engine. Try this first before you buy a stator/rectifier.

Take a piece of wire (12-14 gage) and attach one end to one of the screws that holds the rectifier to the engine. Attach the other end to a good ground on the engine. . Check to see if it starts charging good again. If it does you have fixed the charging system. . If not. Then look at all of the wiring and then replacing the stator.

Kohler had a problem with stators that stopped putting out a full charge after a few years. Someone at Kohler finally listened and they started installing a metal strap from the rectifier to the engine block at the factory and cured the problem.
 
Today I re-checked the stator output, seemed higher. I sprayed cleaner in the plug terminals and started the engine, it climbed right up to 14.8
 
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