Thanks for the suggestions but, I remembered a real problem

My dash lights don't like to come on the same as my headlights - either I get one, or the other, unless I fiddle with the switch and/or beat on the friggin' gauge cluster bezel. Sometimes a random bump will turn off one set of lights or the other. Really annoying. I need to just spend the bucks on a new switch and be done with it.

I'd bet that it's the switch in your case, too.

I think it is a ford thing..... my 88 used to do that... but for some reason hasn't for awhile... even though I guess I have been working on it too much... and driving it less at night.... so probably still does.... Sometimes it is tempting to get a relay and switch kit and just rewire the friggin things!!! Have a hidden switch lol... I remember when I was dating this girl who kinda lived on the out skirts of town a bit... and being out in the boons... and having the lights go out.... get pretty nervous driving blindly down a pitch black road!!!

No offense, but try PM'ing the guy, instead of thread-jacking.