Condensor that grounds/bolts to clutch slave

[Pete_89T2]

Originally Posted by RETed

You are correct.
It is to minimize pulses from the oil pressure sensor to the oil pressure gauge in the instrument cluster.
Many times, it is broken or left disconnected - usually due to a clutch job and / or disconnecting the transmission from the engine.
I've never seen the stock oil pressure gauge "freak out" due to it not working.

Side note, there's another, identical cap located under the trailing coil pack.
That one is to minimize interference from the trailing coil pack switching between the front and the rear rotor for the ignition select.


-Ted

Thanks Ted, that's what I thought. Being an EE, and reading the FSM schematic, I knew that one just served as a high-pass noise filter on the oil pressure circuit, but the FSM schematic doesn't always show physical locations of parts. Yeah, I can live without it there, I'll just leave it disconnected.

For those of you reading that are not electrically savvy, if this condenser breaks (one bolted on the clutch slave) DO NOT take the broken wire, slap a lug on it and reconnect it to ground - doing so would short your oil pressure sender to ground and screw up its reading.