Two schools of thought. One is that if you've got everything good and clean as it sounds like you do, there isn't any need to lube it as far as operation goes. A little graphite wouldn't hurt, I suppose, as long as you blow most of it back off before assembly. You really don't want anything slippery in around your brakes, right? And some would think that anything by way of a sticky lube like grease or never-seize would only attract brake dust in operation and perhaps gum things up to actually impede operation later on.
So the flip side is to leave them dry and make sure that everything is bolted down well and that you've got good rubber and a good fit on the boots. Even with that, if you were to leave it parked for an extended period with the brake set, you might find that the balls and actuators are one more thing that might develop a little rust and bind, causing the brakes to stick . . .
I haen't lubed mine and the one time the brakes on one side wanted to stick, they came free really easily and, from that point, I simply left the tractor in gear without the brakes set when parking it.
I think you'd be okay either way. If you do lube with anything it should be very sparingly and of a type so that there isn't enough to thin out and run onto the discs when things get warmed up.
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