cooling not so cool

so got to tear down today. flushed the rad and it flows great. i don't believe that is part of this problem.pulled the t stat and it looked ok. I'm gonna test it to see if opening at temp and all the way but I'm also putting in the stewart components as suggested by YR in post #7 .

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