I appreciate the responses. It's practically impossible for me to get a helper right now. My brother was my helper and he moved out of state. My neighborhood is not a very friendly one; a lot of renters who come and go. So I end up taking it to my mechanic whenever I can't do something on my own.

I've been working so much that when I first got truck I did have him put pads and shoes on the truck, and I can't remember now if he did anything else with brakes (drums, resurface rotors), but I know hoses were not done because when working under it recently I noticed how old and dried out they were. I'll just have him replace them and evacuate the entire system and new fluid.

Thanks. I've reached that age in which all my friends are married with children so no more coming over to play with cars, lol. Except for the occasional times when I can sucker Mike (scratchin) to drive over from the other side of the state and help me greatly with all my car and truck needs!