2012 Prius 3 starting leaking chocolate milk

Can you get a picture up further where it's originating? I've never seen one throw it out of the car like that or have it running out of side of the car and then hitting the drive axle and getting slung

 

What's the miles and how long have you had it?

 

Yes sir that running flow is running down there and hitting that drive axle boot and then that slinging it all around so that's you know quite a stream it looks like or something how long does it show take to show on the dipstick?. That almost seems more like a valve cover gasket at this kind of mileage of valve cover gasket and spark plug tube seals and all that stuff would not be unrealistic usually oil doesn't run a steady stream down the whole side of the motor like that not saying it can't but it's quite unusual and then this is too far in the middle of the motor to be the timing chain tensioner

 

Probably not head gasket because in Gen3 that's usually just coolant between cylinder #1 & #2... And as Tombuk2 said, chocolate stuff can often come from failed boots on CV joints covers.

Just clean it all up and see if it comes back...

 

Never seen that before...... does this appear on the dipstick?

 

Well, it's rare for a Prius, but you got coolant in the oil...
99% of the time it's the head gasket.
Hopefully, the head isn't warped or cracked.

 

That color is usually from a CV joint boot leak being slung in a perfectly straight line.

 

You can replace just the boot they also make very good split boots now so you don't have to undo the axle even you can just cut the old boot off and follow the instructions with the split boot from what I understand the modern version of the split boot is quite good I personally have not used one usually when an axle gets an ate up boot. I'm one of those people that just replace the axle and then I drop my old one off at the drive axle place and they rebuild it with new boots new joints whatever It's like $88 I think or something like that and I take it and put it on the shelf in the shop ready for the next time or the next car.

 

If it's the outer boot, you'll have to cut the old boot off, then use a big
hammer and smack the part of the joint that is attached to the axel to pop it off.
It's best to put the axel in a vice. Then you can install the new boot.
Don't let any of the ball bearings or the race twist out of the hub. They are
a pain to get back in!

 

Fix and sell before the real pain begins.

 

I would go over this but I hate to keep beating a dead horse but this is not the one to be keeping moving forward they aren't keepers there for use and then not Don't get attached to these things moving forward It's not like that anymore not all ended in 2009 or so

 

I know that stuff, the inner CV joint has grease seeping past the large end of the boot and throwing it around.

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