Ok and now for the rest of the story????
I checked all I could with the light switch and came to the conclusion that the only thing that handled both the power for the lights and the power for the gages was the wiring harness that clips into the back of the center gauge cluster. I remember now when I was putting it back together after the new dash that the male end had two missing gold contacts,, I'm guessing for options that I id not order or other. And It really did not show which way was up or down. And the female receptor for the harness had gold contacts on every slot so could not tell right from wrong there either. So I pull out the gage cluster in the center and make sure all gold contacts are not touching and shorting and put the harness back in the opposite end up this time...and Bingo the lights and gages work fine now........ I have no diagram or picture or indication that I can see on the plug at the end of the harness that would tell you which way is up or down????
Hopefully this saves someone else some head scratching if they run into the same issue.
So now its just the rear chrome trim to attach and then I'm done till October..
Its time to drive the car!
BB78
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