i did notice at times.. when coming to a stop.. both the anit lock and brake light would come on... and the brake pedal felt like it had hit a "brick wall" and hard to stop.. then when i would take off the lights would go out,, and the braking felt ok.. what could this be?

 

Vacuum leak or bad booster.

 

any common places to start looking for the vacuum leak? i have noticed a loud air "swoosh" sound when applying the brakes or pumping them at times

 

There are only 3 vacuum lines, it won't be hard to find if you have a mityvac.

My guess is you'll find a bad booster.

 

My brake light came on once under braking and the pedal felt kinda different. When I got home I checked the fluid and one of the reservoir's was dry, and my master cylinder ended up being bad.

 

its a bad booster, mine did that today. i changed both the booster and the master . if you do that watch out when you hit the brakes the first time. it will about throw you through the windshield

 

yeah the brakes feel kinda hairy the way they are right now.. thinking to myself on one occasion today " please stop baby"..