[Brad Townsend]

They were very close. The new one was round and the old was oblong. The new one checked out bad with ohm check. Perhaps when the tech wired the new unit backwards it did something. So being told the capacitors either work or they don't is not necessarily correct. They can still work in a faulty mode causing a problem, in this case overheating the fan motor. Perhaps I should email my findings to Newell....
I am quite relieved knowing I don't have to pull the unit apart and have the motor rebuilt at what expense! Now just need to find 2 shrader valve covers to put over the valves before I put the unit back in the bay. Somehow they were never replaced.