Ok This page describes in detail how to replace a bad capacitor.Safety First, turn off the power to the air conditioner, by either turning off the breaker or pulling the disconnect.Now write down where each of the wires are on the old broken capacitor, so you can reference them later.

Remove all the wires from the capacitor and un-secure the old capacitor.Grab your new capacitor and make sure it is the exact same as the old one.The uf rating is what you need to match up.Now mount the new capacitor where the old one was.

Attach all the wires onto the new capacitor exactly how they were on the old one.(Note: if the terminals at the end of any wires are loose, crimp them down just slightly to make connection more secure.)Ok, you may be done.

Now let’s double check all the wiring make sure there are no bare, burnt or loose wires. And, when all wires are verified as good.Put an amp probe on the compressor’s common wire and turn the air conditioner on.

When the machine turns on watch the amp probe to verify the compressor does in fact start and with no hard start.

If compressor pulls higher than 30 amps even for 1 millisecond, then you need to install a hard start kit on page 16 to prevent premature failure of this compressor.If not then congratulations your done.