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Toyota or stant....usually pepboys carry stant thermos which are very good quality and if they fail they are made too fail in the open position.

That water rush noise is air stuck in your heater core....either you have a pinhole leak in a hose or something that is sucking air or you are low on coolant.........ooor you're blowing exhaust gas into your cooling system... When you revved the motor you cleared the air from the core which...

I want you too go look and see where each line goes...then make your own educated guess...I told you the bvsv was important...go find out why.

Look at the hoses that connect too it....then look at where they run....then you come back and tell me what will happen....how's that sound?

Try 1500rpms......seriously just throw your idea out the window as it's full of fail...if you're car is running hot then you have other problems that a colder thermo won't solve.

I drive about 2 miles at like 30mph before my temp registers on the guage...

edit...lol

It takes awhile for a cold engine too heat the water....what happens when after an hours drive you turn the car off and turn it right back on...does the needle still delay?

That's your tail light failure warning...you have a bulb blown somewhere.....or the sensor is blown itself....check you're side marker lights and tail lights.

Lol you may want to read the very first post in this thread..

No...but what exactly do you mean by "kick in"? I say no because coolant temps and temp guage have no relation too the bvsv's job...although the bvsv works by using heat from coolant too actuate it (think "temp regulated valve")

That is a (bimetalic valve)....it's important and can be had at Toyota or driftmotion.com for $50ish...

what's that? Lol

I miss read your post....I edited mine..my bad where does that little plug lead into....it looks too be the plug for the transmission.

On an r154 you can put the pressure plate and disk on the trans first then all you have too do is line up the shaft too the pilot bearing.....you did it the hard way....

No it doesn't answer itself....infact your plan of action makes absolutly zero sense....sucks when the smartass comments backfire doesn't it?

And what will low temps do for you becides screw up you're efi system?

Cause you found the problem...and it was in the battery area...nothing out of the typical problem...awesome!

Valve seals cause the oil smoke on start up...not rings

Nothing too the crank...no way in hell you'll hurt that....the flexplate or converter maybe but not the crank