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February 1, 2016
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After working on cars and such for over 30 years, I just had a first.
Road testing a 97 F150 for poor brakes, was thinking it felt like brake booster was weak.
I mashed them fairly hard[knowing lines were changed] and to the FLOOR it went. ZERO brakes !!
My driveway is about a 15 deg. hill DOWN, had to put in reverse in yard and gas it to stop.
[park brakes rarely work in Ohio on old stuff] But the booster split in half !! Never seen that before 
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November 17, 2008
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was thinking it felt like brake booster was weak.
I would say that may be an understatement.
Glad you were able to reel it back in and this didn't happen in traffic!
LB
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January 24, 2009
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Yeah, if that happened in traffic, you may not be posting right now. Yikes!
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lbruce said
was thinking it felt like brake booster was weak.
I would say that may be an understatement.
Glad you were able to reel it back in and this didn't happen in traffic!
LB
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Yeah, if that happened in traffic, you may not be posting right now. Yikes!
Thanks guys, I WAS on the road about a mile and a 4 way stop from home !! Did a U'ee in a side street and kinda cut an suv off and had to hit reverse to make turn, drove back in low gear and no one was at stop sign, thankfully 
Here's a pic out of truck, another victim of the "RUST BELT". Usually when you lose brakes, you still have something. Not this failure !! 
A few brewskies and a trip to the range last night helped [not in that order 
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December 4, 2011
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Wow, that could have been bad. I've never seen anything like that before.
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January 22, 2008
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Wow, scary stuff! Glad no one was hurt. Now go buy another Chinese part to fix it!, jk
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