Yes. With no hot water circulating, the heater coil/exchanger will quickly cool down to ambient temperature and the fan will blow cold air into the cabin.
The pump that moves hot water through a hot water heater is the recirculation pump. This pump moves the water through the heater and back through the intake line.
From your description of the symptoms it sounds as if the water pump has failed. No water pump equals: no coolant water circulatiing in the engine to keep it cool as well as no water circulating through the interior heater.
It could be like my 95 F250. The fan tips on the water pump were rusted off. It would keep the engine cool but the pump could not push water up to the heater. Replace water pump. Took me 2 hrs to replace water pump and 100.00.
Check the coolant in the 96 Taurus. Check to insure that the thermostat is working properly, and that the water pump is working.
Probably not.
MY CAR WAS DOING THE SAME THING NO HOT AIR COMING OUT OF THE HEATER I CHANGED THE THERMOSTAT. IT WASNT THE THERMOSTAT. I GOT TO CHECKING AND THE SEAL IN THE WATER PUMP WAS BAD. I REPLACED THE WATER PUMP AND IT WORKS FINE NOW.
Low coolant? Thermostat not opening? Heater core restricted or plugged? Heater core airbound? Water pump not circulating coolant? Temperature control not working?
Check to make sure that the engine coolant is full. The thermostat must be working properly as well as the water pump. The hoses going to the heater core should be warm from the water if the climate control is working on the heat side.
Generally, the upper heater hose leads to the water pump.
heater core stopped up, heater control vavle not working, controls under dash not working, low in coolant, theromstant, radiator not flowing properly, water pump.
a bad water pump could cause low heat. The heater uses the coolant from the pump to generate heat.
I have found the common causes for this are, a plugged heater core, and a poorly working water pump. The radiator could also be plugged.