Instrument panel

The VR has nothing to do with dash lights

Your ILLUMINATION lamps come from an orange wire on whatever pin goes to the harness connector

Do you have power on the orange? Have you checked at the inst fuse in the fuse panel?

WARNING lamps all get power "on one end" of the lamp from the blue (blue stripe sometimes) which is "switched ignition" and also feeds the dash gauge limiter.

The thing that makes the warning lamps come on (brake, oil, etc) is that the other terminal of the bulb becomes grounded by the sender or switch

Have you downloaded a shop manual?

Do you have a clear understanding of the harness connections?