I made a video about this topic recently. My conclusion, the inline is the way to go.

 

i plan on it. This is just temporary

 

@Mullins.cody if that is not an actual grey Land Rover part it is a waste of time. I had an LR one a few years back and it worked well, the inline works better.

 

i actually watched this video and got the same one you recommended lol

 

its an actual LR part

 

This is an important point for people to understand, Cody has an actual LR part and he still is getting high temps. Even the LR factory units do not reliably maintain temperature. My 4 year old 170 inline started sticking over the holiday weekend, but because it was an inline housing it took me less than 5 minutes to remove it (losing zero coolant) and put it back together without ANY thermostat in there. Gets you home with zero HG risk. All thermostats can malfunction, but the inline is both more reliable and when it does malfunction it allows you to recover quickly.

 

i havnt installed the LR part yet. The one in it is calorstat

 

Ok, my bad. Let's see how it goes with the factory LR part.

 

im not expecting to be in the 180s but if i can stay under 200 average temp for now with that and the new fan clutch ill be happy

 

One thing to consider as the engine is recently redone is a proper bleeding of the system. My guess is most shops won’t take the time to make sure the system is bled entirely. Look up some bleeding recommendations on here, take a couple days of bleeding it in the morning and see if that doesn’t help until you get the in-line done.