Cause for concern?

[Lth101]

Bought a 2011 242 Limited S last season with 250hrs on it and it has been running well with no problems or codes or anything i could think of. I had the boat surveyed and sea tested by a local trusted marine surveyor. I changed the oil and plugs at the end of last season and upon putting the batteries in at the beginning of this season i ran both motors on water for 10 minutes and everything looked and sounded ok with no codes. Today i was trying to clean the engine bay since the previous owner didn't keep it all that tidy and i spaying corrosion X when i noticed these cracks under both my port and starboard motor engine oil dipstick? Should i be really worried about this? Its kind of freaking me out.

https://imgur.com/a/nLdLKSt

 

[tdonoughue]

A little hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like it is just a little tab on the block that is cracked? And that tab... holds the dipstick?

If that is so, I would not worry too much. But if the crack extends to the block itself... I would share your concern.

 

[drewkaree]

A little hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like it is just a little tab on the block that is cracked? And that tab... holds the dipstick?

If that is so, I would not worry too much. But if the crack extends to the block itself... I would share your concern.

Definitely better pics needed - back out some, so we can see the area. Not everyone is familiar with the engines shown, so that close-up is a bit claustrophobic, and confusing for those of us who don't have the exploded schematic memorized so that we know what we're looking at. You can also insert the pics right here. There's no need to post them to imgur where they may get lost/deleted/unlinked or whatever. Keep your pics in front of everyone's eyes by adding them into your thread right here, like this: