it sounds like one of the heater valves is sticking, once it sticks it's generally crap and needs replacing you can play around with it but it's going to stick again, you can wack it with a hammer/block of wood/screwdriver handle and it may work for a little while, another thing to do is shoot power to it and work the hell out of it off and on, theres 3 pins in the plug and one closest to the firewall is the common pin and the left and right pins are for the left and right valves, hook one to hot and tap the other to ground listening for the knock as the valve closes, wack it till it knocks, then work it for as long as you feel like hopefully wearing down the crud that's making it stick open
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it