Strange oil leak under TD4 freelancer

Hi all. Got what is a strange (at least it is to me and a local mechanic) oil leak under my 2006 TD4 freelancer. I've attached a photo to see if anybody has any ideas. It looks like oil is spraying out of the transmission, but surely that would be a different colour, right?
My oil levels seem to be ok and the car has just been serviced. Showed it to a local mechanic where I am now on holidays and he was stumped. According to him there shouldn't be any oil there! so he wasn't much help,...
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance.

Is it not spraying out of the breather? A sign your VCU is kaput or something?

Could be that your prop has become water logged at some point and is now evacuating that.

seems reasonable if no other fluids are being lost

Thanks for the speedy answer! Where roughly is the breather to see if that could be be the cause??

Don't think it could be the prop? haven't gone through any water recently here in in Spain : )

If it turns out to be the vcu i'll eat my land rover

maybe some heavy handed monkey has pumped grease into the bellows

Freelaner said:

If it turns out to be the vcu i'll eat my land rover

maybe some heavy handed monkey has pumped grease into the bellows

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I hope its the VCU there's a breather thread as a sticky which explains it a bit

SES88 said:

I hope its the VCU there's a breather thread as a sticky which explains it a bit

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Thanks! I'll check it out

SES88 said:

I hope its the VCU there's a breather thread as a sticky which explains it a bit

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link?

The oil I can see is either dripping onto the prop near to where it connects to the engine (I'm not very mechanical minded!) because it is being sprayed onto the underside of the car, or it is being ejected from the prop itself from the rubber seal part. But if that was the case would it be black? Wouldn't transmission oil be yellow/brownish? And if it's dripping down from the engine, where is it coming from? Could the have over filled it when they changed the oil 10 days ago?

is it loosing fluids or not?

Oil level seems fine... ; (

have you checked the oil in the ird?

Hmmm... Is it easy to do? I'll do a search on that!

there's a plug on the rear of the unit on the right side halfway up

this is the filler, if it's full it will leak out slightly from this on level ground.

Either oil dripping down and backwards onto the prop or the rubber gaitor has split around prop. Any other oil trails?

looks like grease out of that joint and that is black

teddywood1 said:

looks like grease out of that joint and that is black

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That's what it is, CV joint grease. If it's only a tiny hole, sometimes just the oil in the grease comes out first. Replace the rubber gaitor and some grease b4 the joint ingests any dirt and you might avoid having to buy the front propshaft assembly.

:angel:sometimes it is good to be old and know these things

Thanks for the replies.... I guess it's time to get the gaiter replaced.