Popped open my new motor in order to add Statorade and the thermistor. The motor opened up easily, no need for using a puller, and the cable side cover came off just by wiggling it a little. The screws were pretty loose, barely more than hand tightened.
I traced the white thermistor wire and it appears to terminate at the same spot as the ground wire
, which seemed odd. I retraced the wiring, and can't see where the stock thermistor may be located or wired. I check for continuity and found something more odd. Measuring between the ground/black and thermistor wire/white at the connector, shows 580 ohms between them, so it's as though the thermistor is somewhere in series with the white wire at the connector and the white wire that terminates in the motor. But, there's nowhere that I can see where the thermistor branches off between the two points. Any thoughts? Black to black is 0 ohms as expected.
I'm warming up my soldering iron to disconnect the white wire on the stator and then measuring between the two points again, but so far it's a mystery. I do see some room between the windings where I an stuff the new thermistor into.
The other side where the cable enters from the axle.
EDIT: Same measurement when the white wire was unsoldered, so decided to pull the wire from the cloth sleeve and I found it. Not embedded in the coils like I expected, but just under the cloth sleeve in the middle of the stator, so I guess would only measure the internal air temp. Plus, it looks more like a diode than a thermistor; just odd.
I also noticed when stuffing the new thermistor under a space in one of the windings that it's super sensitive. Even touching the winding will change the resistance from heat from my fingers going through the copper coils. Seems like a better location, so will JB weld it there, solder it up, them move to adding the Statorade. Hopefully I have the wheel relaced by the end of the day, but maybe not trued by then.