doogan

PROBLEM  SOLVED  at least for now!!!!
Well I have been bumfuzzled all day but finally fixed I HOPE.    Like I said whenever I would crank the engine and turn the lights on everything worked fine for about 2 minutes and then all lights would turn off for 5-10 seconds then back on for a minute or so then back off.   This would continue as long as the lights were on and the engine running. 
After all day of checking connections for tightness, verifying wired correctly, undoing, redoing, praying and wondering the problem was located.
 
I had replaced my generator with a 1 wire, internal regulator alternator.  Then left the old voltage regulator mounted on the firewall using the "Bat" terminal as a junction for the alternator/gauge wires to connect.    Well apparently the regulator was building up current back into the light system causing it to become intermittent.   So I removed the wires from the regulator and taped them together, cranked the engine, turned the lights on and let it sit and run for over 5 minutes.   The lights stayed on the entire time.   So unless something else pops up this problem is solved.
I plan on taking an old broken regulator and gut it leaving only the 3 terminals using one for the junction of these wires.  Or just stop by the store and get a junction strip and mounting it in place of the regulator.
Thanks guys for all your help and suggestions.    Hopefully this will help someone else from having to go through the same bumfuzzled day.  Again THANKS!!!
Don

Thanks Jeff, that will get me going.
Don