Ford F150 '93 lots of weird things going on...?

OK, so i have a f150 1993 v6 4.9 liter, #1 it stalls on start up, but once you hit the gas petal its fine, i don't have any money to get a ~$100 code list to fix whats wrong, i have a friend who's been a mechanic for 30+ years, who is at a loss of what it could be, we've fixed the Throttle Positioning Sensor *twice*, New spark plugs fixed it for about 4 weeks, then it started again, also there is a *#2 problem* popping noise every time you hit the breaks, my mechanic thinks its just slipping, which we could believe we do need new breaks in the front soon, but since I'm posting this anyway might as well get some extra opinions, then *#3 problem* as we're going down the road (at start up) for the first say 10 miles per hour we're going it squeaks such as something is going wrong in the front *we believe* but it only squeaks when we're going forward, not in reverse, just looking for ideas that my mechanic could look at, and possibly tell us if this is the problem, like i said i dont have $100 for the codes that might not fix what we're having problems with, oh yeah and if it stalls out completely *for the first problem* if you hit the gas fast enough when it completely stalls out it will come back to life, you have to pump it once or twice but it revs right back up and stops stalling permanently until 6+ hours later *if you dont drive it* say 1/2-1 1/2 seconds later after it stalls if you hit the gas it will start back up just fine. possible clue to what it could be??