OP, thanks for digging up that smaller pads do better. My Mooney has been getting worse over the decades. Pads and shoes keep getting bigger. So back to the short little pads we used 40 years ago and my shudder might go back into hiding? (I never saw it the first two decades.)
I'd get the fork hanger except I use longer saddles so to get the braking I like. I need to make my own fork hanger. Fully doable, just yet another project.