Lights on the dash and gauges inop, help!

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I just wrapped up doing an evaporator swap this morning. I started the truck to ill/ burp the cooling system and there are several lights on the dash lit up:

Cruise
KDSS (not a kdss GX)
blinking battery light
oil light comes on when the door opens (weird)
Low fuel light
no gauges work, (The engine temp, gas gauge and tach don't work. I didn't drive it so I couldn't test the speedo.

I checked the connectors on the back of the gauge cluster and they are tight.

In the assembly process, I came across 2 connectors that I could not find a mate to:

1) above the ignition lock, behind the dash. It's right next to the pink-wrapped main power harness coming off the ignition. Its a white connector, only about 3" long. It has 5 wires in it:
Black
Yellow
White/ Black tracer
Green
Green/ Yellow tracer
The green and green/yellow are smaller gauge wires, like many of the signal wires in the harnesses. The Black, Black/ Yellow and White/Black are a heavier gauge wire.

2) Under the center console, a white connector, to the left of the yaw sensor box. There is another larger plug directly below it that it is attached to. They both share a mounting point and clip to the center console.

Any ideas?

Thanks a ton!
 
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This may be a silly question...but are you sure you don't have a KDSS GX? It seems odd you'd have a functional warning light for a system you don't have.
 
From what I understand, the kdss system looks totally different than the regular sway bars and end links. Mine just has the basic looking sway bars.

I just opened up the console and the lower dash on the d/s to see if I missed anything, again. There are no other plugs that I can see anywhere near where these 2 are. Could the computers just have freaked out from having the battery disconnected for 3 days and it just needs to be hooked up to a scanner?

Or could it be a loose ground somewhere?

I'm about to take this thing to a shop tomorrow and have to spend more $ having them figure it out, which would suck.

Thanks.
 
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