Thanks for the suggestions. I did not fill from the thermostat housing. Perhaps it is not filling properly and the temp sensor is not giving proper readings. I won't be able to work on it again until this evening.
When I said shooting, here's what it does. Once it got hot, the water just began to spill over the lip, in a constant flow. When I shut the engine off at that point, it shoots much more water out momentarily then with the water level down at that point, I can still hear it bubbling in the radiator.
And no, the fans never ran.
