The silver fox (ford taurus 1995) has done it again! This time he won't start!

Details have still not been provided but if the engine starts and dies, starts and dies, and then eventually runs ok then I go along with Tester on the drain-back valve being the cause.
That’s simple enough to check.

Fords don’t have a fuel pump circuit through an oil pressure sensor; or at least none of the Fords I own and have owned have had that feature.
It was somewhat common on GM cars quite a few years back.