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Sorry, it's not handy for me to measure right now, but if you look at the above picture it's not much bigger than the dia. of the hub.

The plate is 1/4" and I'm not sure how much we removed from the hub. I would take just enough for a good flat area.

Playing with the scab plate on the tongue and the finished (for now) product..

Here's where I cut the axle down @ 4 1/2" each side.

The magnet now has a large flat surface to grab and everything is good. Here's some other mods I did to the tongue, getting rid of the tilting feature in the process. You can see the tires are tucked up under the body and I still have the A3 axle bump for good ground clearance.

So, I machined the hub down flat and made a rotor to mount on the back of the hub, drilled and tapped four mounting holes, so the new rotor (plate steel) mounts to the hub. With the new surface the magnet has a large area to grab to.

Hello fellas, I'm going to attempt to document what I went through to convert a M101A3 to electric brakes, but first some backround. I started with a M101A2 body on a A3 axle and wanted to tow it behind my FJ55 Landcruiser that had a narrower axle than the A3 and I wanted to tuck the tires...