Oil coming from Passenger side

[GrantUlmer07]

There is oil coming from the passenger side of my BEW and I've sprayed multiple cans of brake clean on the engine to clean the oil up but cannot find the leak, could anybody tell me where it might be coming from?

 

[DonL]

Up at the top is the hose coming into the "carburetor." Check to see if the oil is coming from there. Otherwise, all the oil I was getting down there turned out to be from the rack and pinion steering boots.

 

[Vince Waldon]

In my own experience 9 times out of 10 oil coming from the top of a VW diesel engine turns out to be from the valve cover gasket... I'd focus my next brake kleen efforts there.

 

[snakeye]

A leaking anti shudder valve can make a mess behind the engine as well.