Neat solution Mark which hopefully acheived the desired results thumbs

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Assuming you employed a bypass valve similar in action to one above, I cannot see how there would be any flow through heater core from any small leak via butterfly valve when in bypass mode, reference comments made earlier in this thread. This since same leakage would be presented to each end of core, cancelling any flow thinking

Richard

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