Revisiting this post:
As previously stated, in peaved frustration, and willing to reset clocks on AA battery changes, I removed the superCRAPicitors from both Fluke 189 and 289 two years ago,
and they have been flawless.
I forgot about it till I came across this post.
Seriously folks, either fit a new capacitor, or lose the bearded leaky one,
or.. leave it in there at your risk
and toss coins the meter does not go weird with a shorted or halfass behaving cap stressing the meter's smarts. Your call
I sincerely thank the many members who commented across many posts about this so that I could make up my mind which way to roll back then
The Disclaimer is just because my quick fix hacknique worked for me, YMMV
These meters are absolute keepers for me, especially now that I don't leave AA batteries in there during non use periods to leak!
Surely there's a special lake in Hell for battery industry bean counters, and their shareholder dividend junkies