what is this? looks like a cap to take out electrical noise in the system. if it is, does anyone know what value it should have so i can grab a replacement at radio shack.

thanks!

 

Trash it, you won't miss it.

 

Oil level sender condenser (old school word for capacitor)

It'll work without it, just don't let the wire it connects to ground out.

The value is printed on it. It's 0.47 uF (micro farads)

 

THANKS! i didnt see if there was a uF next to the number.

 

There isn't, but usually when something is marked 0.XX it's almost always uF.

 

If I knew where it went I'd help , I'm the type of person that would be bothered by something like that not being hooked up that normally is.

 

It usually is mounted under the clutch slave mounting bolt toward the drivers side.

If you dig into the material at the bottom carefully, you should be able to expose enough of the copper wire to re-solder the connection wire to it with a really hot soldering iron.

 

My car (S5 na) has TWO of those, one is for the oil pressure gauge, the other is part of the trailing coil circuit and mounts (along with some other grounds) to the front coil mount bracket.

 

S4 has the coil one as well.

 

im sure this one is for the OP sending unit, dug into the harness and they're on the same circuit. think the bracket grounds it? went to radio shack and got a 1uF (closest without going under)

 

That will make your gauge respond slower. I'd just leave it off and make sure the wire it is supposed to connect to isn't going to get accidently grounded.

 

It has a plug, just unplug it. Stop sweating such useless parts and worry about something that could actually make your car act up on the dyno.

 

see the plug and the bit of yellow and orange wire in the back ground of the pic? harness got caught on the steering shaft, ripped the wire out of the cap and broke it off in on the harness