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I have put it on defrost and it blows out the windsheild. Vent and all the other vents gets up to temp but blows cold and is full on fluids and the hoses do get hot that happened in my wife's sport trac and it was one of the sensors on the water outlet
I would say that if both the heater hoses get hot, then coolant is flowing through the core, so it must be a blend door, but I'm not really familiar with the layout of the doors.