Not hijacking thread but I just replaced the same and the rotors came with lil bit of grease and while breaking I guess the friction and heat made it smoke up and smell really bad & strong

The grease is applied to the caliper guides on the knuckle, the caliper mounting pins(bolts), and it also said to the rear surface of the pad where it contacts the body of caliper. Not the surface that touches the rotor. Also prior to grease, take some sand paper to the guides till they are smooth.

You don't want to lube the piston. Maybe the rubber boots and those bolts the caliper rides on. Maybe very sparingly where the pads ride on the knuckle. Personally I might put up with it, or wait a bit and see if it goes away.

I might pull the wheel and watch it. Really nothing should move much when you let up the pedal. It simply stops applying pressure. I doubt mine moves more than a few .001 ths....

I've only done two, so no expert here.

I remember on my Tundra one of the pads was almost gone at 50K, whereas all the others looked new. The Tundra used two thin pins to keep the pads in the caliper, one had a slight burr. Filed off the burr and at 80K all the pads looked new. Just common sense.

The Jeep caliper is VERY different. The Tundra has 4 pistons and a fixed caliper, whereas the jeep has one piston and the caliper has to move. Wherever it moves, lube it lightly.

If it were me, I'd probably live with the noise, fits the Jeep . . . crude!!!

Tundra: 4 overhead cam V8 Sophisticated
Jeep: pushrod I6 Crude

But I love that crude Jeep, perfect size, fun to power slide on gravel roads.

The noise did end up being the rear brakes, specifically the right rear where the shoe padding was cracked and the self adjust cable had broken and was just laying in the drum spinning around. Jeep has 128,900 miles, I believe it was the original back brakes. Thanks everyone for the help!