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thanks everyone.. I shall follow up on your advice

Hi everyone, I've lived alone on a narrowboat on a mooring for a couple of years but now my circumstances are about to changed dramatically and my 11 year old son will be living with me. I will need to get a bigger boat and move off my mooring to take up continuous cruising for budget reasons. My son has autism and plan give up my job to home school him, but before I make the leap I have a few, maybe obvious questions - mostly around the lack of address. 1. Can you claim careers allowance without an address? 2. Can you claim any benefits? 3. Can you register for Doctor's surgery? 4. How do you have a bank account? 5. Are potential (part time, home working) employers ok with a lack of address? If anyone has any experience of something similar, I would love to hear how you do it? thanks!

Hi, I had another look and i'm struggling to find a number. I've added more pics in the hope this might aid identification but I think I may have to find somebody locally to have a look.

ok, i'll have another look this evening. thanks for your patience!

Some more pictures attached. It looks like 1261505

thanks again everyone. I'll have another look for the engine number this evening

Hi, I couldn't see the engine number, unless its the one in the first picture, but I have added some more photos. So, i'll need to replace all plugs with 12V ones and replace the wire linking the two glow plugs - It seems like this should be fairly straight forward as long as I keep the photo, as you say - is there anything else I should be aware of? thank you again for your help Jonathan

Thank you David. Paul - i'll post some more pictures later. Question to both - would I be able to directly replace the old 2v glow plugs with new 12 volt ones? and would I need to replace all four, and is there a specific type I should order? this is incredibly helpful - thank you both!

Thank you Tony, this is really helpful - much appreciated. I'm told that the engine is a "four cylinder raw water cooled Austin 2500cc four stroke diesel engine which had been marinised by Bowman" I can add another photo later if that would help. So, would I be able to directly replace the old 2v glow plugs with new 12 volt ones? and would I need to replace all four ? thanks again!

Hi, I'm new to boating and whilst i'm loving every minute of it I'm having some issues with my engine - i'm hoping someone has some ideas what's wrong. I took it out yesterday and about an hour into the trip the noise changed, I check and smoke (exhaust smoke I thing) was coming out of what I think is one of the glow plugs. After a closer look I could see that a small white 'washer' was missing. I've attached a photo - it's the top one of the two that has the problem. I have some questions: 1. What's the part called - is this the glow plug? 2. What's the specific washer part called? 3. Is it easy to replace without risking further damage if I do it wrong? 4. Would subsequent damage to the engine likely to have been caused by this? 5. Is there anything else I should be aware of? thanks for your help! Jonathan