# Brake pedal creaks in hot weather **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** ford\ **Created:** [June 2, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-pedal-creaks-in-hot-weather/49748 "2010-06-02T15:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![budd2049](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@budd2049](https://community.cartalk.com/u/budd2049)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-pedal-creaks-in-hot-weather/49748/1 "2010-06-02T15:58:32Z")
2000 Crown Victoria, 150K As the weather has heated up, I’ve developed an odd problem. My brake pedal creaks like an old cellar door when I push down on it. It doesn’t affect braking power at all, but it’s getting loud enough to annoy. I tried soaking the pedal pivot joint with white lithium grease, but that didn’t help. I’m reasonably certain it’s coming from where the pushrod enters the brake booster. Is there a bushing of some sort in there that I can get to and soak with the grease? There’s a foam covering over the pushrod where it passes through the firewall; how about soaking that? ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-pedal-creaks-in-hot-weather/49748/2 "2010-06-02T18:12:22Z")
Perhaps the creaking is from the power brake booster, no amount of soaking will stop that and a creaking booster should not be soaked with anything to get it to stop creaking, it could stop boosting. I guess I just want to careful with brake components that make noise and find out why they are making the noise before applying a potentialy harmful chemical (to the booster). It seems you have already “hit” the pivot points which are safe to lube up. ---
**Author:** ![budd2049](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@budd2049](https://community.cartalk.com/u/budd2049)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-pedal-creaks-in-hot-weather/49748/3 "2010-06-02T18:16:19Z")
Yes, my thoughts exactly. I have no idea what effect a lubricant will have on the booster, which is why I’m asking BEFORE trying. A noise I can live with; brake weakness or failure, not so much.