I'm guessing cylinder head is cracked somewhere? It can't be anything minor right? Entire cylinder is filled with coolant because its covering spark plug.

 

it could be minor. its one of 3 things

1. cylinder head cracked
2. cylinder sleve cracked
3. blown head gasket

ither way the head has to come off good luck

 

ive also seen coolant fill the cylinder form botched skunk 2 manifold installs, they dont use the cooler lines.

 

the cylinder wouldn't fill all the way up like that from a bad head gasket would it?

 

Just one cylinder? Small rupture in the headgasket is probably to blame; a relatively easy fix in my opinon. If it's a sleeve, time for long-term boost plans

 

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After you shut the car off, the coolant is still under a shitload of pressure. If there's a rupture in the gasket, coolant will pour into the most readilly available expansion chamber, be it your radiator, your overflow bottle or your cylinder. How did you discover this catastrophy? I ask because cranking a flooded cylinder is a wonderful way to bend valves and/or rods.

 

started the car one morning and entire car was shaking. i thought it was misfiring or broken mount, turned the car off, and few minutes later started pulling spark plug wires and one cylinder was completely filled.

car was loosing coolant every now and then prior to this

 

up for the night

 

bump

 

any help?

 

dude, your help was covered in the 2nd post, immediately after your question. It's your turn to help yourself.

 

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what help do you want? your engine is toast
replace it or upgrade

 

i see.. i'm going to pull the head and take it from there..

now.. if i have to replace the block (D15B7) and this is automatic, any d series block will work, right?