Okay, the dash lights and the shifter would be powered off of the rheostat so that they can be dimmed. I would use a test light to verify the fuses, I've seen many times where they look okay, but were bad, or the socket they were in didn't have power.
Attached is the wiring for the interior lighting. The green and white wire at each light should have battery voltage when the headlight switch is on as they get their power through the taillight relay, and the dimmer is not turned off. As you have the dash apart you can test those wires with a test light and see if there is power there with the lights on. The Black and yellow wire is the ground side that is grounded through the dimmer rheostat. I would take a light test and unplug the rheostat. Then connect the light to battery positive and verify the ground at pin one the Black wire. If it tests good, take a piece of wire and connect pin 1 to pin 2 which is the black and yellow wire. Now turn the lights on. If the wiring and fuses are okay the dash, radio and other interior lights should come on as you bypassed the dimmer and controls. If they do, the dimmer is bad. If they don't then there is a problem with the power feed to the wire that goes to those lights. Take the test light and connect it to a good ground, touch terminal 3 in the dimmer connector. Does it light up? If no, then you need to trace the wire back to the splice and see if it corroded or broke. Also look for the joint connectors (looks like a comb with all same-colored wires connected to it) behind the left side of the dash. One should be green with white stripe filled and the other black with yellow stripe. Unplug and re-plug those a few times to make a better connection.
If you test for power at fuse 20 first, key on lights on and get nothing then you have a different issue. If you have power under those conditions, then the above testing should get you to the bad area.
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Thursday, December 29th, 2022 AT 1:34 PM