My battery cable rubes thru while bush hogging one day. I run it about 6 hrs. Get it home and she won’t crank to get it off the trailer. Of course the battery is dead. I go to jump it off and smoke everywhere. That’s how I found the cable. I changed it out. Charged the battery. Nothing. Put another battery in it and nothing. Neighbor suggested I burnt the solenoid up so I put a new starter combo on it. Still nothing. I’m at a loss. Won’t even make a clicking noise. Any ideas??

You reckon you burned your ground up, like where it grounds to the frame?

Does this trac have start safety switch? Are you mashing the clutch in the start attempt or just putting trac in neutral or both? It should have the neutral safety switch & may have been damaged in the Hot wire mishap. Do you know the old screwdriver trick to the starter to bypass everything without letting the trac run over & kill you? If you attempt that trick be CERTAIN the trac is in neutral.

Never had to push the clutch to start it before but I will try that.

Check for a fuse between the battery the starter

Are you getting power to the solenoid from the battery? Have you checked the ground wire?

Poke around YouTube and see what you can find.

May have smoked the ignition (key) switch also when the cable ground the system out.

Sounds like a bad ground but could be the switch depending on what got fried.

You need to get an IT shop manual and an electrical tester.

Battery, key switch, neutral safety switch and starter solenoid. That's it. It does not get any more simple.

It doesn't need the volt regulator or the alternator to crank. One of those wires goes to the black volt regulator and the alternator wire is obviously the one from the alternator, Doesn't need either of those. Just disconnect them.

If it has a 5 position switch it has Thermostart and there are 2 additional wires. Doesn't need those either just disconnect those from the back of the key switch for now.

If the neutral safety switch got fried you can bypass it for now but do fix it.

If it was running and you lost connection between the battery and ground or pos. Most of the time, you will fry everything that was on at the time because the Alt. will over charge to the max because there is no battery to regulate, usually about 20 volts.

Bad ground. You can rewire the whole tractor in about an hour lol. Those have a neutral safety (either trans in neutral or high - neutral - low has the be in neutral). Check the main ground and switch wiring.