Instrument Lights Not Working

MtNemoMopar is the winner! Well......sort of....

I went back in to the dash, and checked everything over REAL WELL....
I found a pin that was loose so I replaced the circuit board panel with the one out of the other dash. I went back in and checked all of the gauge fasteners, checked all of the wires, and then I tried the lights, and nothing happened.

I decided to see if maybe a fuse had blown, but all of the fuses were good.

I was replacing the fuse panel, and VIOLA! the dash lights came on. I was turning the dimmer back and forth and I could see THEY WERE WORKING!!!! AND THEN WENT BACK OFF. I thought maybe I was seeing things so I had my wife shut the garage door, and I SAW NOTHING (no dash lights) That's when I realized there HAD to be a loose wire somewhere.

So I kept fiddling/fooling around, and I saw the dash lighs come on, and then go off. I traced the problem back to the headlight switch, but it wasn't the switch, it was the switch PLUG. It had partially melted when the previous headlight switch overheated, and burnt out. Some of the clips inside the plug weren't sliding ove the blades on the switch....the were just barely touching, and creating a lot of heat. When I would wiggle the switch they would go on and off....

I repaired the plug, and now ALL of the dash lights are working!

I think repairing the entire dash was the key to getting ALL of the lights working, but without finding that melted plug, I would never have fixed the really bad problem.

NOW IT'S TIME TO FIX THE BACK UP LIGHTS!!!!