ok that was odd, i threw a trickle charger on the bird after sitting for what seems like forever on this swap. as soon as i did, there was this continuous ticking, 4-5 per second up in the nose. turns out to be the headlight motors ticking loudly. turn on the lights and its fine, turn off the lights and it start again as soon as the lights are all the way down. after cycling them up and down several times, the lights just stay up even when off, which is how they are now cause i had to get back to work. did my headlight motors both just die? i have no idea what happened to cause that, i've never had any trouble with the headlights before. any of you experts have any ideas? i'm still gonna see if i can get it started tonight, but this is really weirding me out now.

 

Did you have the battery cables connected when you put the charger on?

 

yeah, htey were hooked up. i went back down and tried it again, and now they are working again normally. guess maybe they were jest sitting too long, or maybe it was a little too cold for them.

 

Damn gremlins