Your head gasket or cylinder head is cracked.
Find source and fix it.
Antifreeze leak top of engine
You can add it to the coolant reservoir. It's located in the top left corner of your engine. Make sure your car is cool before you add in the antifreeze.
Your 50 / 50 mixture of antifreeze and preferably distilled water should be right near the top of the radiator ( as long as you can put the cap on without the antifreeze mixture overflowing ) The plastic coolant reservoir in the passenger side of the engine compartment has a cold mark on it , just maintain your coolant level up to the cold mark when the engine is cold . ( Ford recommends to not drop below 40 % antifreeze and not exceed 60 % antifreeze in your engine coolant mixture )
Because there is antifreeze int he system and it takes a while to burn through. Also replace the bottom hose too. <> If it smokes from under the hood, It has antifreeze on the engine exterior, You can wash it off. Or just drive it and it will burn off. If it smokes from the exhaust, There is engine damage.
1. Open the radiator cap. 2. Disconnect the top radiator hose. 3. Run the engine for a couple of minutes with the hose off. 4. Insert tap water hose into the radiator where the top hose should be. 5. Run water into the radiator until clear water comes out of the radiator top hose. 6. Continue idling the engine, remove the tap water hose from the radiator, shut off engine as soon as the water stops coming out of the top water hose of the radiator. 7. Reconnect top water hose and fill radiator with antifreeze. Start engine and top off antifreeze.
Drain the antifreeze, follow top hose to bottom of engine. Bolts probaly come out from top, but will be under manifold, ouch, pain in but.
No. The top hose goes to the engine. The bottom hose feeds from the engine to the heater core back to the radiator.
You've got a blown Headgasket. Don't drive it !
low coolant (antifreeze) Make sure the engine is cool before you open the cap and top-up the cooling system.
Check your antifreeze. When you remove the radiator cap (make sure the engine is cool) there should be some antifreeze at the top of the radiator neck. If you don't see any, then the level may be too low and you'll have to add some antifreeze.
On a 2000 Lincoln Continental : The engine coolant reservoir is in the engine compartment . It is on the PASSENGER SIDE OF THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT and has a thread on cap on the top of the tank ( which is the pressure cap / radiator cap )