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Follow up:
Pulled cluster, removed old capacitors. One was bulging at the bottom. Like an idiot, I took the new capacitors and trimmed the excess wire before soldering in....so there was no way to tell which was ground and which was power. The body of the capacitor wasn't labeled of course.
I figured I'd just wire them in and test it...sure enough it is working right now. Is there any danger to anything if I wired them backwards, or would it just not work?
Also - while pulling gauge cluster, came across a switch in the upper left hand corner of the big gaping hole, behind where the fuel gauge would be. It looks like a simple spring loaded pressure switch, like for a door jamb/overhead light setup. Does anyone have a clue what this is for?
I attach a slightly blurry picture -
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Charlie
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'66 VW 1300 96K miles
'97 E300D 239K miles
'85 300D 203K miles (sold Sep 2012)
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