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Here are the best pics I could find. I believe a thought I had at the time was the sidewall width of the HMMWV setup. The sidewall is a little more rounded than a regular tire.
I only had these old pictures from 4 years ago. Thinking back, I think they were real close to being on the inside of the fender well about an inch. This was after I put the 1" wheel spacers on. The HMMWV tires are wider by 50% or so than what I planned. Probably from spring center to hub face...
Here is the conversion I did. This is a Hydra Star actuator. It can't use Dot 5 so I flushed the system from the master cylinder hose out to the wheel cylinders with mineral spirits then used Dot 3. The old Dot 5 was ugly so I flushed until clear, then some more. I used an air bleeder. All said...
You could try and find the wheels and tires from the M1061. They are the same 6 lug but have a 16.5" wheel and 36" tires. There are some wheel shops that will make any kind of wheel you want with whatever lug pattern. One I know of is Stockton Wheel in CA. I think they run about $250 each a year...
I did an axle conversion to 8 lug, electric brakes with parking brakes, and used the HMMWV wheels and tires. The problem I had was the parking brake cable was 3/4" from the tire due to the wheel offset. I had to use a 1" wheel spacer.
Here is the axle spec I got from engineered by Dexter. (...