Porshy - you keep missing the same point...I thought you were getting close to getting it in your own re-statement, as you added some words...but, you still missed it.

The tire droops AT first due to the down force of the suspension...I do believe that part is well understood.

The part you forget/didn't notice...is that AFTER the suspension is no longer pushing down...which happens BEFORE FULL DROOP...the TIRE/AXLE is what is pulling the tire down to droop further...and the leaves are pulling UP on the axle...REDUCING the weight on the tire.

As long as there is supported weight of the truck on the tire, the revolver is folded....and the leaf pack and shackle work as a normal one do.

When the tire is UNWEIGHTED by the TRUCK...the tire can droop...and, it will do so exactly like a regular tire droops...same physics.

So - once a corner is unweighted, either due to the terrain falling away, or, other corners being more weighted/lifted by the terrain rising, etc...the tire will try to stay sitting on the ground, while the suspension lengthens its reach.

On a regular suspension, when unweighted...the shackle swings, and, gravity pulls down the axle, and the leaves arch deeper, dropping the tire further...

..but, the further you droop the tire, the more and more resistance is pulling it back up...as the leaf gets too arched to go any further...and, finally the tire hangs.

On the Revolver, same sequence, except it can let the suspension lengthen a bit more, and does NOT pull up on the tire on the way down...so that the tire has MORE weight on it.

This is the critical part you're missing...

...a Revolver drooped tire is attached to the axle, and the leaf pack is under the axle...so - the weight on a drooped tire is the FULL weight of that half of the axle, leaf pack and tire.

...a Std shackled drooped tire has the same weight on it, but, that weight is REDUCED because the leaf pack is pulling UP on it.

...So the Revolver tire has MORE weight on it, not less...and therefore MORE traction, NOT less.

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You seem to think a revolver drooped tire has no traction...I think you think that because its been a long standing myth that's been repeated for years...but never thought long enough about WHAT weight we're talking about...the unsprung weight that provides ALL suspensions with traction ...once the tire has drooped past the suspension's neutral point.

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The neutral point is where the unweighting occurs...with the best example being where you jack it up to change the shackles...that point right between supporting weight, and free fall.

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Once you hit free fall, the Revolvers lets it drop with its FULL Weight... the std shackle set-up fights the droop as the leaf bends ... letting it drop with LESS WEIGHT.

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The plane takes off, trust me.



I've gone over stuff with the Revolvers open, and they DEFINETLY provide traction...the tires DO NOT magically spin despite being pressed against the ground hard enough to grab.

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Example 2 -

If it were a coil suspension, instead of a leaf pack...and the tire drooped past the coil's range (Like where the coil was at full length, and the axle was dropping further due to its own weight...

Are you telling me my jeep's coil sprung live axle leaves my tires with zero traction when the coil is at full length?