Q: ford explorer won't start
Started losing power to engine then lost oil pressure then truck died changed oil and filter and air filter now have oil pressure again still won't turn over charged battery and tested works fine and have a park it wants turn over and will but only at full throttle and then dies sound like it is choking out did errors got 102 303 304 305 306 and egr all cleared on the computer so it should turn over but won't
My car has an automatic transmission.
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