That part looks like something from a bike seat adjusting mechanism but the
pix are so teeny its hard to tell...

Are you asking what the capacitor is/does or is there something I'm missing?

Jake

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@gmail.com>wrote:

> I was trying to get to my Idle Control Computer and found this thing hidden
> in the space:
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> http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/MysteryDoohickey#5483214385772111
> 618
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> It looks like something I would've found in Grandaddy's barn, and therefore
> I want to think it has something to do with horseshoeing, but I don't know.
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> I decided to put the alternator from my '86 in my '87 because I thought it
> was making some bearing noise, and when I picked it up it was like this:
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> http://picasaweb.google.com/garciasghostvw/MysteryDoohickey#5483214459268981
> 010
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> That wasn't the way the alternator was configured in the '87 so I changed
> it
> around. Anybody know what's going on there?
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> Cya,
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> Robert
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Jake

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