Norm's electrical woes are throwing me for a loop!

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Hello everyone!

Norm, my 1980 300TD (just for you dial up users) has been throwing me for a loop as far as his electrical problems are concerned. Now they aren't anything too terribly major, but it would be nice to have fixed!

Backstory - From what Tyler tells me, the clock, glow light and seatbelt light worked up until he pulled the cluster for the first time, then they all stopped working sans the clock which only works when the car isn't running. We are both guessing ground fault issues.

Fast forward to today. I had the cluster out once prior, but to no avail. Today I took it out as I was going to repair my cruise control amplifier (I did the "soldering trick" and it worked!!) and thought "what the heck, I'll try it again". Once again, same result, no seatbelt, no glow, no clock. Anyways, I put everything back together and take Norm out for a drive to see if the cruise works. Well I go to glow him and notice the cluster is out just a tad so I push it in and the seatbelt light comes on but is VERY dim. Then I realise that my dome lights are not working, so I start to fiddle with those. When I move the switches on the dome lights they don't come on, but they turn on or brighten the seatbelt light! I'm guessing I shook something up down there when I was messing with the amp! It's all very interesting, and I really wish I could know exactly what is causing this to all happen!

I'm going to pull the kick panel again tomorrow and shake the wires a bit more to see if it does anything! But all kidding aside, what would be the cause of this? Ground fault issues? Something else?

Thanks guys!