remote start/alarm in 97 mountaineer

Do you think I should just start going through the millions of wires? It seems to me like it's my only option.

no the most guaranteed way to do this at this point is to take the steering column shroud off and find the key cylinder........look at the opposite end where all the wires come off and just start testing use a dmm (like you said you were) and just test those wires there wont be more than 10 wires and being that its a 97 there most likely wont be that many wires......if there is a grey plastic cover over the base of those wires tear it off and test each one individually.....youll find it....its gotta be there the truck starts right?  its just a ford!

No reason to take off the shroud.The ignition switch isn't located at the key cylinder. Remove the knee bolster and look up at the ignition wires where they go into a gray plastic cover connected to the steering column. Take a screw driver and pry that cover off, it'll probably break(they always do and that's ok). that will reveal the ignition switch plug. I don't mean anything by this, but are you sure you are using your DMM correctly? The starter wire will be RED / blue or WHITE/ pink in the top row center on the ignition switch plug. It's there, i've done hundreds of these trucks and it definately shows 12Volts during crank only....

Alright, I wrote down all of the readings. There are a total of 8 wires in the ignition harness, + a skinny tan/green wire which I will leave out of this.

Starting from top left they are:

(1)EMPTY_____(2)GREY/YEL____(3)GRAY/YEL____(4)YELL____(5)YELL

THE BOTTOM 5 ARE

(6)RED / BLUE_____(7)GREEN/ PURP____(8)GRE/PUR____(9)EMPTY____(10)BLACK/ GREEN

I numbered them 1-10

      OFF          BACK          ACC          START          RUN

(2)      0                -1.6           11.87              0                14.38

(3)      .1                1.6           11.72             0                  14.41

(4)    12.19        12.23          11.9               10                14.33

(5)    12.19         12.26         12                    11              14.33

(6)    11.6              9.8          10.2                12               10.7

(7)   2.2               -.4              12.22             10               14.24

(8)  2.1              -.5               12.11              10                14.16

(10)  6.6           12.56           12.18            2.6               14.18

The starter should be #6 RED / blue by my diagram, but it does not read that way.

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97 mountaineer ignition harness

Alright, I wrote down all of the readings. There are a total of 8 wires in the ignition harness, + a skinny tan/green wire which I will leave out of this.

Starting from top left they are:

(1)EMPTY_____(2)GREY/YEL____(3)GRAY/YEL____(4)YELL____(5)YELL

THE BOTTOM 5 ARE

(6)RED / BLUE_____(7)GREEN/ PURP____(8)GRE/PUR____(9)EMPTY____(10)BLACK/ GREEN

I numbered them 1-10

          OFF          BACK          ACC          START          RUN

(2)      0                -1.6           11.87              0                14.38

(3)      .1                1.6           11.72             0                  14.41

(4)    12.19        12.23          11.9               10                14.33

(5)    12.19         12.26         12                    11              14.33

(6)    11.6              9.8          10.2                12               10.7

(7)   2.2               -.4              12.22             10               14.24

(8)  2.1              -.5               12.11              10                14.16

(10)  6.6           12.56           12.18            2.6               14.18

The starter should be #6 RED / blue by my diagram, but it does not read that way.

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