Yeah - they are maligned by those who don't have them, and don't know how they work....its amazing how many wrong ideas are out there.

Most of the problems come from the same problems off roaders run into when they make a mod w/o understanding it...like adding 44" tires to a wrangler, and blowing the diffs, jacking up a truck, and then getting off camber with the new higher center of gravity, and rolling over, etc.

So - Revolvers give you a couple of more inches of droop than a regular shackle...say like having the lift of a 3" SL, but the travel of a 5" SL, etc.

As the rear droops more, the drive train, shocks, etc...need to be able to reach.

I've seen people toss on longer shackles (Not just Revolvers, same deal there too...), and spit out drive shafts on hill climbs, over extend shocks, etc.

If you install mods with some concept of what's involved, there's no more trouble with a Revolver than any other mod...its fairly straight forward really.

So - part of the misconceptions are repeated stories about "a guy who spit a shaft or rolled over" w/o context, and the other part (A HUGE part), is the plane on the tread mill-like lack of understanding of how they actually work.

The primary mis-understandings involve the idea that -

"an axle that droops against a spring its hanging from, pushes down on the earth harder than an axle that is LESS pulled up"...seriously, some people think a revolver'd axle has no weight pushing down, compared to an axle with a solid shackle...go figure.

The other mis-understanding is that a truck is held on the earth by the leaf springs, not by gravity...so if you don't hold the truck down, it floats off into space....they call this "unloading".

It doesn't actually happen, I tried to go down hills so steep that stock trucks ass ends did leave the ground, doing front wheelies if they braked a bit, etc...but the Revolver'd ass end did not leave the ground, it stayed ON the ground...no unloading or other whacky physics appeared to amuse onlookers, etc.

When any off road mishap occurs, people look for why...its how we learn.

As a species though, we tend to be big on associations...and, there's a strong history of correlation = causation going on.



So - If something on a truck is different from the others...we tend to blame THAT on why the mishap occurred...so if a guy rolls because he missed the line by a fraction of an inch, or the line was altered by the previous truck and now the rut/root leaned him a bit more over, etc...so he rolled...people typically miss that level of detail (Its hard to see of course, hell, the DRIVER typically didn't know, etc....).

So - what's different, that MIGHT make a roll? Too much lift? Too stiff a suspension, so that he couldn't stuff the tire, and it pushed him over? An Antenna Medicine Ball? He's really fat? "Whacky Shackles? Etc....

....that's how it works....its human nature.



So - in my experience with jeeps for decades, and X's etc...the Revolvers work great, are not a problem, any more than any other mod you might make....unless you are sensitive to the opinions of people who don't have them/don't know how they work, etc.