Check the vacuum lines behind the dash. I had that same issue, I thought it was the blend door actuator, ended up replacing it with oem but Zack had discovered a crack in the vacuum line which was causing air not to come out the vents and I believe that's what caused air to come out the defrost while the eatc was off. Already had the eatc o rings fixed too at the time.
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