Stop in for a cup of coffee

Well, that was a heart-stopping moment. Was just coming home from the post office going about 40 mph when I came up on a line of traffic stopped for the traffic light. I hit the brakes like normal and...oh ****...pedal right to the floor and no braking action at all!

Slammed it into low gear to scrub some speed and mashed hard on the parking brake then quickly shifted in to neutral. Guard rail with no shoulder on the right and cars coming fast in the opposite direction. I thought about planting it into the guard rail if it wasn’t going to slow down fast enough to stop before rear ending the stopped car ahead.

Thankfully, it came to a stop about 10’ short of the impact.

Nursed it home with flashers on while going 5 mph and using the parking brake. By the time I got into the driveway, the belts were squealing from all the brake fluid sprayed around the engine compartment. Near as I can tell, one of the steel brake lines going into the ABS block split open. Hard to tell which one, but that’s definitely where the spray was coming from.