Another Vanguard Briggs and Stratton 14 hp Diagnosis wanted by a Muppet (me)

[cjdg]

The background is that I have a Countrax ride on mower and lost the key.  Improvised with a screw driver in desperation and finally got round to buying a new key holder.  The new key holder was differently wired.  To cut a long story short I managed to put the wrong wire on the wrong terminal with the result that I got smoke coming out of the top of the engine where the starter motor goes round.  See photo.  The smoke lasted for about at most 10 seconds probably less when the batter was quickly disconnected.  Tried to start it again (more in hope than expectation) and not surprisingly it is dead as a dodo. Now I am an old motorcycle guy and am not familiar with a more modern engine that probably has PCBs and my suspicion is that I have blown something serious... but what? is it the insulation on a copper coil of some sort? (I think not) so what caused the smoke to stop the engine firing ?   

Where will I find a "Haines" type manual to work out how to take the cowling etc off and get to the working parts of the engine? Yrs aye. Chris George

[Tree monkey 1682]

Ebay for manuals or agri manuals? They might have something similar , could you even have shorted a fuse ?