Okay, if you want to verify the PCM is not pulling the relays to ground, Pin 85 (Relay 1) and Pin 86 (Relay 2) both circled in green here are both pulled to ground during Cranking, if you put a meter on either of them and going to battery negative, you should read close to zero volts while in the Crank position.
Meaning the PCM is pulling them to ground and there is no voltage drop from either of those pins to battery negative (ground). I dont think you will see that. If one or the other is being pulled down, but not both, then you most likely have a broken wire in the fuse/relay box that houses those two relays.
In some cases if you have a test light that is very low current, you can use that to test for the PCM grounding circuits, but you need to know how much current the test light you own uses, if you put a test light in series with your multimeter and change the leads over to the Amps or mA setting, you can see how much each test light uses for current. I have tested many test lights, and for example a Harbor Freight 12v test light pulls about 250mA of current, it has an incandescent bulb in it, but my snap on also has an incandescent bulb in it but it only uses 50mA so it is safe to use on PCM driver circuits, but the Harbor Freight test light I probably would not use on a PCM driver circuit such as a relay control wire. Thats why I recommended using the multimeter in that case.
You could hook a test light to B+ and go around and touch all the ground locations on the engine block and body/frame to see if they are all grounded. With an engine swap I'm sure you are just dealing with a wire connection issue if you didn't change out any of the fuse boxes or PCM, etc.
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