Burnt wiring harness serious problems

[countryboy1225]

I bought a 1999 Explorer with the 5.0 it obviously had an engine fire, the harness connecting to the pcm is burnt but no visible exposed wires from what I can tell. The previous owner said it was from the recalled cruise control part on the master cylinder, he replaced the master cylinder and that wiring harness but the truck takes 2-3 seconds to start and after running for some time (10-20 minutes) it will not start with out a jump I dont think it is the alternator (I pulled both postive and negative wires from battery and truck ran fine) then last night I drove 45 minutes to a friends house shut it off for about 5 minutes and tried to jump it off it would not start and the theft light was rapidly flashing. I messed around with the burnt wires and theft light stopped flashing but the truck would still not start I got one of those led spark plug testers it said the truck had no spark I confirmed the tester worked so I towed it to ford. The guy at the quick lane said he would call Ford and see if they would still honor the recall my question is if they dont, what would be some possiblities for the easiest fix, should I pull another wiring harness from a junkyard or what I'm lost as of now.

 

[budwich]

IF you have to jump it to get some sort of starter action, then that's not a PCM issue, its a connection between the battery, the start relay and the starter. After that, dash indictions (theft and such) are more related to PCM issues.