Kennykenny

I have a 2005 Civic LX 4 door. The car has a squeak coming from the break pedal area(I believe). When the pedal is pushed down and let go, while stationary, there is a squeak. The squeak does not occur when the car is moving at a decent amount of speed and the pedal is pushed in to slow the car down. If the car is moving at a slow speed, such as slowing down gradually and coming to a stop, such as at stop light, there is a squeak.

I have lubricated the top of the pedal bracket but no change thus figuring that it is not coming from that area.

Ideas? Thanks!

ezone

Stick your head out the window and see if it is coming from the rear brakes.

Have someone on the outside of the car listen too.

CraigW

iTrader: (1)

See if working the hand brake on/off will produce it.

If so it is where the bottom [ portion of the shoes contact the backing plate.

Lube in that area of the backing plate to resolve.

Kennykenny

There is a bit of a squeak when putting the hand brake down, not as drastic as when pushing down the foot pedal though.

When you say the shoes contacting the backing plate, assuming that means the backing plate is the back side of the rotor that the pads are grabbing a hold of on the front brakes?
Thanks for the suggestion.

Kennykenny

I guess that I wasn't reading clearly when reading your response, you said shoes which meant the rear drum brakes right? So take the drum off and clean and lube that area?

ezone

Each brake shoe has 3 flat areas where it contacts the steel backing plate. The backing plate has a corresponding number of flat areas where each shoe makes contact.
3 per shoe
6 per side
12 total

I use moly grease for these

Google image search, there's a ton of stuff like this:

CraigW

iTrader: (1)

When I did my 05 it was a simple fix, no disassembly required. (think it is the lower ones)

And yes, it squeaks on brake pedal release, or hand brake release.

Kennykenny

Thanks for this. Can you or someone provide information on how to put moly grease on the contact points without removing the shoes? A video would be great if this is possible to provide. I assume that this is not hard to do but seeing it done first would be very beneficial.

Thanks again.

CraigW

iTrader: (1)

Yes, A good flashlight and something to dab the lube to the backing plate.

A chopstick or dowel, stiff wire. It only takes a small amount once you locate thee area it goes.

Kennykenny

Without having the knowledge or experience of working with brakes before, do the shoes have play that you can move them away(with a screwdriver or something) from the backing plate to give room to dab the grease on? Thanks!

CraigW

iTrader: (1)

I would not try to move them out, and would not work them much without drums in place.

Believe the culprit to be the lower [ that makes the noise, and it is easily seen and iirc, you can see the area of the backing plate where they ride. try to get lube onto each side of them L & R then put the drums back on and work the hand brake several times to distribute lube.

Kennykenny

Thanks for the responses. Will give it a shot and let you know.

lowlife9

my guess is its the return springs in the rear drums those always make noises on hondas. clean and lube them.

Kennykenny

Thanks. Do you lube the springs with the same moly grease that has been mentioned earlier to lube the contact points. Is it a good idea to spray down all of the components with brake cleaner once I take off the drum prior to taking lubing the contact points?

Wankenstein

Did you grease the return spring?
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