damn y'all are thick...

1) I've personally seen revolvers unload, causing a rig to hit a tree that another rig identically build (except for the revolvers) didn't. Now if someone can tell me how the one that didn't have revolvers defied the laws of physics and missed the tree due to magic, I'm all ears. Until then, the ONLY difference was one had revolvers, one didn't. And the one that did smacked the hell out of a tree on an off-camber situation.

2) For other situations other than off-camber, revolvers are worth about as much as a $3 bill, if you can't match the suspension flex in the front.

For the photo showing the X doing a nose-dive into a tree, when its rear passenger side wasn't on the ground... THIS PROVES MY POINT! If that Xterra had any travel up front other than the pathetic amount available from the IFS, it WOULDN'T have been nose-down in the first place! If the rear tire happened to be on the ground because it had revolvers flexing enough to let it touch, it wouldn't matter, because there wouldn't be any force going to the tire; an open diff in that situation would still have the same problem; no traction to that rear driver's side tire.

So there's two upgrades that could have prevented that X from nosing into a tree:

1) real suspension upfront instead of the non-flexing IFS crap.

2) a rear locker, so if one tire lifts, it doesn't matter.

All a revolver would have done in that situation is give the appearance of traction by letting the tire hang down. It wouldn't have done anything else.

Ugg. I'm through with this. If someone wants a revolver shackle, then please, go spend $150+ for a pair. At the same time, be sure to pick up the other offroading "upgrades" to the Xterra, such as the street "beadlocks", and brushguards. They all do about the same offroad, so you don't want to forget anything.

:p