Q: Truck won't start

asked by on October 12, 2016

My truck has fuel pressure in the rail, but won't start. There is no fuel on my spark plugs. I have been told it is probably my ECM. I put in a used ECM, it almost started, but didn't. What do you think?

My car has 350000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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