I guess i wasn't clear on my issue. The led part for the odometer and the trip meter as well as the analog gauges for oil, amps, fuel, and temp all work fine. The dimmer switch controls the light level on each of them properly when the parking or head lamps are on
The issue is that due to GMs love for black background clusters and the low light level in the car during daylight hours without the parking lights or headlights on only the leds are readable. What I want to do is find a power source so that the cluster is lit at all times when the ignition is on so that I can read the 4 analog gauges w/o having to run parking or head lamps. The wiring schematic on this site and others is vague or I am just not reading it right. I need to identify the wire that feeds power to the cluster lighting so that I can tie in a 12v on circuit.
Thanks for reading.
I've had several Buicks where I had to solder the circuit board in the cluster so that the odometer displayed. This is not my issue.