h First steps on a "new to me" game, took the playfield out, flipped it over and did all the things you usually do when you first get a game from somewhere else. New bulbs, coil sleeves, all new standup targets, and the occasional switch. put it back in started a game and went to work on all the pool balls that were not reacting tp their targets or roll over switches and I worked on them for actually quite some time.
Ok start a game. and I've got ZERO power from the Pop bumpers on down, no flippers or slingshots or rollovers or targets. All the G.I. lights are on but the bottom 3/4 of the playfield the assorted things have no power.
Went through the fuses again, pulled them out, checked the amps and checked with a continuity tester. They all test good.
Then I checked all the plugs male and female looking for any probs, found none. Now everything worked to different degrees and I was real close to being 100% when DOINK!!!!! power disappeared.
Remember now that the rollovers across the top and some of the 1 pt. switches are working until the kill zone.
Any suggestions on where to look besides fuses and the connectors?
Thank you.

yes I played the game before I gave the playfield a "tuneup."
Ball count unit seems to work correctly.
Is it possible to have a hidden tilt somewhere that I have overlooked? remember I can start a game and ball goes to ball lift, upper rollovers work just fine. THink its possible the bottom 2/3 rds of the playfield all get power with one common "hot" source? Maybe that's what Im overlooking. I WILL go back and go over the connectors and see if I can find something amiss there.

I said "kill zone" to describe the area from the pop bumpers on down where Im getting no power. Just slang, I guess I shouldn't use slang in here. I shall try to avoid it in the future.
One thing that is different from most games is that the connectors are fastened to a piece of wood. All the female sides are attached to this board and then the male pins are attached. THe board is not attached to anything. Just hangs there in the air. Of course the board and its plugs have insufficient length of wire to pull the whole thing up throw the bottom of the head and doesn't hang low enough in the cabinet to observe there. So I shall go in again today, separate the male side of all the plugs and check solder spots on each with a magnifying glass.

I checked the back of the ball count unit. It appears the switches there are all working. the switch in the ball trough, if I activate that by hand it will count off one ball each time so that is working correctly.
On the tilt relay, which has two switches, I hand activate those individually and then together with a rollover switch on the lower part of the playfield jumpered to be always closed. Nothing started working on the same lower 80% or so of the playfield. I thank you for the direction there JR.
So its that time of the day where when my broken 11th vertebrae tells me that it is time to stop looking over the game.
Tomorrow when I get some time I will take reading on both sides of those plugs. I probably need to sit down and look over the schematic well and see if I can find the two different sources of power, at least I THINK there are two sources and that one is working and the other is not.
I will post again when I get chance to check both sides of the plugs.
Thank you the suggestion today.

With the exception of buying a NIB Waking Dead Pro I have spent the past 10 to 12 years doing "restorations" on old Gottlieb Wedgeheads. Now I have some serious medical issues with my back so I thought maybe Ill just get this game up and running and leave it at that. Old habits die hard though and I've decided to go the whole 9 yards on it and do the repaint and chrome and all that comes with doing a "restore" on it. I'm hoping that during the tear down and then puting it back together I will find the problem. So I may very well be back here in a couple of months or so asking for advice once again.i have faith tho, I usually sniff out these kinds of issues.
Thanks you everyone for the input. I really appreciate it. Maybe Ill come back if I find the problem and all systems are go I will post a couple pictures. Thanks again everyone