My dryer quit recently - wouldn't start spinning every few loads, and
would sometimes stop spinning during a load.  I disassembled it, found a
bad drum support roller, and replaced both rollers, the belt, and the
drum support slides on the front.

Thinking all would be well, I assembled it and it has the same problem.
If I start turning it by hand then it starts just fine.

This all leads me to believe that the motor start capacitor is bad,
though I don't have a lot of experience with AC motors so any other
suggestions would be nice.

The capacitor (I assume) in question is a small black 1cm x 2.5cm x
3.5cm plastic module with two leads.  They are essentially shorted - 0.1
ohm, with a capacitance measured in nF.

Markings:
9820 T-D-D
20MCD3KA
 058
Another 058 is on another end of the package.

I'd like to know if this is probably a capacitor, and what its value is
likely to be, and whether the problems I'm experiencing are generally
due to capacitor problems.

Pictures can be found here
http://ubasics.com/adam/cap/all.html
about 7k for all of them.

Thanks for your help!

-Adam

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