Spark Plug Help

[Neejay]

After my car sat for a month, and with me being cluless, I finally replaced the ignition switch fuse and it crunk up. The only problems is that it was stumbling and puffing out black smoke (running rich) which led me to believe I was running on 3 cylinders. Well, I took my spark plugs out to find oil on the RIM (not gooked up or a lot of it) of all the spark plugs. After further research I thought: time to get a new engine. BUT upon even further research, I realized it might be oil thats causing my engine to misfire. It wasnt burning oil (Im not blowing blue smoke and never have).

I kept looking it up and some people were saying thay it might be some bad valve seals and maybe some spark plug tube seals. Im gonna replace the spark plugs and the spark plug tube seals tomorrow and see what happens. I need a new valve cover gasket and new valve cover bolt also.

Any other ideas as to what to try?

[s13sr20chris]

oil on top of spark plugs? yeah, valve cover gasket and tube seals. valve seals will make you burn oil.