2013 rubicon <10kmiles
After a weekend of wheeling, I noticed my passenger side rear wheel has developed a squeek. Best way to describe it: it sounds like a cricket. It corresponds to wheel speed, can't be heard above 50mph, gets slightly louder when light pressure is applied to the brake petal, and completely goes away with full brake petal pressure. I took the wheel off - the rotor seems straight. I cleaned any dirt/mud from around the brakes, but being that I'm relatively new to this and have no previous mechanic experience I wasn't going to go beyond that. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

Any off roading? Worst case bent flange. Pull tire and watch for runout.

 

Yep sounds like mine...bent axle shaft flange.

 

I thought my squeak was due to a bent axle flange but it turned out to be that my caliper slider pins were not greased and cause an annoying squeak!

 

I have the exact same squeak issue that you described. Last night I raised my Jk and watched the tires spin-looks like I have a bent axle shaft

 

Same here. Annoying squeak with light brake pedal and goes away with full braking; I pulled my pads and applied grease where the pads slide in the calipers and squeak is gone, thanks to tip from other forum members, worth a shot.
Not just in the pins but where the pads are seated in the caliper casting, also put some lube behind the pads where they contact the piston.

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Doing this at every tire rotation and no more squeaks

 

This is worh a shot, thou when i raised he JK i noticed theirs a wobble on my rear passenger which is where the squeak comes from

 

You'll know, a bent axle flange is pretty obvious when you take the wheel off and spin the hub


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Agreed. mine i just jacked the wheels up both the rear tires wobbled like hell.