Has anyone had this happen before? I have a 2001 D/A that was resting in the drive way as I was cleaning my garage out. When it was time to drive the truck back into the cleaned out garage, I noticed that the brakes required incredible effort to stop the truck as well as the power steering seemed to be lost as well. At this point the truck was undrivable.

I shut down the engine and checked both the brake and power steering fluid only to find both are at their proper proper level.

Upon a restart the problem still happened. No brakes and no steering! As a last resort I placed the truck in park, increased the engine idle by pressing the accelerator and volia, both the power steering and brakes came back to life.

Is this a misnomer or is there something starting to fail in the vacumm booster department? I would not like to experience this while cruising down the highway or heading down a curvy mountain range.