Hi Luke

Sorry I haven't acknowledged your post sooner; we did make it to Maroc (where we met up with Kevin (Moodybloo)), and just got back. Our Iveco ran fine (met up with two other 40.10WM campers, both Dutch) and no problems at all with the rear suspension so unfounded fears there as it turned out! Worked great on the rough pistes. Followed the Dakar route across from Rissani to M'hamid as soon as the last competitor had passed but it took us a bit longer.....

But I'm still no further with the spares situation. I know about the Iveco air suspension buses and ambulances and have a spare unit from a scrapper but it's not the same as the ones on my truck. When the paramedic prototypes were built Iveco farmed the suspension conversion on mine out to another company so they did it, not Iveco themselves. Hence the parts were not all Iveco sourced, including the airbags. This company no longer exists. And as mine was the only one with air it's not a standard WM part either. All the eight British ambulances were given one of a batch of 'made up' chassis numbers which do not exist in any Iveco database.

I took the ARB compressor from my Wildcat just in case but it wasn't needed. It does tyres as well as the Air Locker diffs on the racer but looks dead weedy compared with the twin cylinder 24v effort on the WM. I'm still thinking of steel springs with assister airbags at the moment; www.airbagit.com is the site to look at and the prices are right. I have found a belt-driven aircon pump which is (allegedly!) self-lubricated (sealed) but need to experiment a bit more!

It's been the first Maroc trip for the Iveco and although a short one I've come back with a long list of mods for the truck - I think I'll start again......!