No dash lights

[chevyboy55]

We started to put my sons dash back together after painting & the dash lights do not work.Let me start at the begining.
We wired the power door locks & alarm back up & when you lock the doors with the key fob the blinkers on the gauge panel flash (this is as they should do)
so this tells me the light bulbs work (we replaced them with led's while out)
but when turn the lights on there is nothing.The harness is plugged in tight @ both ends. When I pulled the wiring harness out of the back of the gauge cluster it has power at all times at the top & bottom brass contacts on the left of the plug in(sorry I don't have any pics,the truck is at the painters shop) but when we turn the lights on there is nothing.They worked fine before
we took it apart. I hate to replace the headlight switch just hoping.Any ideas?