Good find. I had a feeling it was a wiring issue.
If you plan to have this Monte for a while, I would swap out those butt/barrel crimp on connectors and use heat shrink tubing and solder the connections. The soldered connection will hold much better and the use of heat shrink tubing will insulate the connection. Otherwise, those connections will eventually corrode and cause you big headaches down the road.

 

Thanks for the advice! will be busting out the soldering iron this weekend... lol