oil on my plugs (cylinder side) not in wells

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Dogitch

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I was wondering, I checked my first 3 spark plugs and noticed that 2 out of 3 were soaked in oil.(Cylinder side) The wells are pretty clean. Why am I getting so much oil on those 2 plugs? Are my seals (valves) bad? I notice my car uses a little oil also, but still seems to run great. Car has only 80k and I'm getting ready to do 60k. I've used the search function but only found topics on oil being in the wells.(I went through alot) So if anyone can help-thanks
 

Dr. Tweak

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If your plugs were really "soaked" in oil, then most likely you did in fact have a small amout of oil in your wells and it ran onto the plugs when you removed them. ****
 

sdpatt

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If the wells were dry of oil, the wetness on the plugs could only come past the valve guide seals or the piston rings.
 
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