Hey all,

My wife and I took our 1995 960 w/168k on a road trip from Delaware to Louisiana. We made it down no problem... so all you 960 haters, sorry, some of them are really good cars.

On the way home the brake pedal got really soft. It travels really far down, but the brakes still work without a problem. just lots of trazvel to get them to work. I do feel a slight tug/pop/pull/something about halfway down.

From doing a little looking under the hood and finally sitting down on the laptop at a hotel in Chatanooga I think the following;

1. Vacuum leak in the hose between intake manifold and brake booster.
2. and/or the one way check valve is bad.
3. I do not need to freak out and try to fix this in the hotel parking lot, my brakes work but I just really need to pay attention on the rest of the way home. It is all highway driving, and I made it 500 miles with a soft pedal so....

---I should also add that the brakes on the car were done months before I bought it, and I've been driving it for 6 months without a brake issue, plus had my mechanic go over the car before I left for the trip. It shouldn't be an air in the brake lines issue.

So besides the suprise gift of a broken tail light lens, this has been the only problem. Am I thinking right on this with the vacuum/check valve problem?

Also can I still get a Volvo part to replace the valve or is there some other compatible part I can use?

as always thanks a million, the Brickboard is the other reason that I love to drive a Volvo.