Mike, I appreciate your help and comments as I have waded through this. I have had the intermittant brake problem for a while. When I first dug into it I found the bare wires that were in photo in a ealier post. I cut the bare spots out and used proper connectors with heat shrink. The bare wires were and issue and I am glad I found it and fixed it. Today, I pulled wires out the axle, ran new wires and reconnected them, blue to one side of magnet and white to one side, I was told that it didn't matter which..there is not positive or negative.
My thought are that there is more bare wire inside the belly that I can see and from my tugging and moving them around they have grounded to the the frame. I could run new wire all the way from the plug and bypass the belly to or may even apply 12 volt at the wiring going into the first axle..
I am not a automotive wiring guy, but I have completed rewired a house and a boat with a lot of electronics so I am not totally inexperienced.
I am assuming that the breakway simply sends 12volts to the magnets?