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Look, you make statements that the drooped tire has no traction...but they are based upon nothing.

In fact, at the same point in droop, the Revolver droop has MORE - not less traction.

Explaination:

ALL drooping tires, regardless of suspension, are dropping because the weight of the axle is pulling them down...the truck is NOT getting lighter, so it drops because the truck is rising with the terrain...or it drops because the ground is falling away under the tire, and the tire is falling into the depression/following the terrain down due to gravity.

All suspensions are supporting the weight of the truck in total....with 4 tires.

When one tire is lower, the other three (etc...) are reproportioned, as the weight is diverted to the other tires.

Once the truck's weight is supported at one corner, at ride height, the amount supported drops as the tire drops....for ALL suspensions.

If that were not true...what forces would explain the tire drooping at all?

The droop of the regular suspension is fighting the leaf pack on the way down once it has dropped lower than its last vestiges of support....which occurs at the point at which you can rattle the shackle, say to change the bushings, etc.

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Example:

So - When I drooped a side with my Calmini Lift Shackle...at the point where it had dropped to the neutral zone, ...about where you take out/put in the shackle bushings for example....the tire had only the axle weight to pull it down...as I PASSED that zone, so now the FLEX of the pack was allowing the axle to droop FURTHER...I was loosing traction/weight on the tire...

...As the tire was drooping down, flexing the pack further and further, it had PROGRESSIVELY less weight on the tire...the tire was essentially HANGING from the leaf pack...

...pulling itself down against the resistance of the stiffening leaves.

So - at FULL DROOP, lets say a point where the tire's top was even with the lower wheel well edge...there was NO weight on the tire at all...zero traction...its just hanging there...one more fraction of a mm higher, and its getting air, etc...



Summary - the leaf pack reduces the traction progressively with droop.

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Same example - with the Revolver:

The suspension supports the weight exactly the same way, and, as the weight is reduced by droop, as the tire follows the terrain, etc...the truck's weight on the tire drops proportionally, exactly like the regular shackle.

When the top of the tire reaches the previous neutral point, the shackle can unfold, and allow the tire to continue to droop, WITHOUT THE TRACTION BEING REDUCED BY THE LEAF PACK PULLING BACK UP ON IT.



So - at the exact same point that the Calmini Shackle had ZERO traction...The Revolver is providing about the same traction the Calmini shackle had at the previous neutral point.

This weight on the tire continues though, and is not reduced as the shackle unfolds...until it too reaches its extended droop limit, exactly like any other shackle...just later/drooped further.

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That's how it works....and that's why the uninformed re-hashes of old myths are bunk.