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Freeze the motors?

If you are serious about cooling the motors, make some small brackets with small fans on them blowing right over the brush assy. I would avoid the compressed air route as you might start shorting things when the ice thaws out.
( it will ice over ) You are trying to fix a fundamental design/fabrication flaw in 30 seconds and it won't work well.
Check the motor alignment too, if you are putting a side load on the motor ( as in, up, down, left or right on the shaft ) it will make the motor very unhappy and sometimes have results you describe.
If you are really cooking them that badly, might i suggest going down to 30amps instead of 40, if you are using 40 now, it might save your motors. Tripping a breaker for 5 seconds in a match is better than cooking a motor and being dead for a minute. ( in general ).
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