It means you positively have a blown head gasket, cracked head, or both. Stop driving this car immediately or you will destroy the engine. There is only one permanent fix and that is to remove the head, have it inspected, and replace the head gasket with a new one. The head may or may not need replacing. A machine shop will verify the condition of the head. If you have to take this car to a shop that is not within a couple miles of your home, I recommend you have it towed to the shop. The more you run this engine the more damage you will have.
on the drivers side of the engine. right above the spark plugs. it has a thin wire sticking out of it. BE READY coolant will pour out as soon as you remove it.
Kinda vague huh? from the first impression it sounds like you blew a coolant hose and the smoke you saw was steam from the coolant hitting the manifold. But if you had to remove the spark plugs to see the water then you have blown a head gasket.
drain coolant from radiator, remove one of the frost plugs in engine block, install block heater in place of frost plug, refill radiator with coolant.
You drain coolant from the radiator. but according to the book ther are two plugs on the engine block that need to drain the coolant from.
Ive never heard of draining coolant plugs except on a diesel engine . Once you drain the coolant and flush the system it should be fine
Gently remove the lower radiator hose from the radiator and use a wide shallow drain pan to catch the coolant.
The is no drain plug on the engine block. The only "plugs" there is, are freeze plugs, but those have to be knocked out and replaced with new ones, if you want to remove them.
Oil drain plugs, Coolant drain plugs, spark plugs, need to know which plugs you are asking about.
becauce the muffler is (was) stopped up. If you switch of your ignition while driveing at speed, their is no spark to the plugs and the raw fuel wont explode till it gets to the hot muffler, many times this will damage your muffler, and creates a very loud backfire!
Only if it has Coil On Plugs.
Freeze plugs. More likely that hoses are leaking or thermostat housing is leaking. Freeze Plugs generally NEVER leaks unless engine block has had frozen coolant in it. Hence, Freeze Plugs.
These engines do not blow head gaskets. You need to replace the black plastic intake or plenum. They will leak coolant into the combustion chamber. Some roge mechanics will tell you it's head gaskets to get you to pay more money. Remove upper intake, remove spark plugs to get coolant out and replace and fill with coolant.