If you enjoy spending your weekends on rough off-road paths, you're probably looking for any enhancement to improve your vehicle's capability. Depending on the type of vehicle you drive, this could ...

Shackles are a vital part of a leaf sprung suspension. Flexing of the elliptically-shaped leaves changes the straight line distance between the spring pack's mounting eyes. A shackle is placed at one ...

There's a natural progression of modifications and updates necessitated in order to make one of GM's Advance Design pickups ride, handle, steer, and stop better: IFS, disc brakes, and an open-drive ...

BrightDrop electric delivery vans (above) as well as Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra pickups from General Motors Co. feature North America’s first composite tension leaf springs (TLS) with progressive ...

It is said that the leaf-spring suspension is the oldest suspension used for automobiles. The leaf-spring system was used more recently in '70s production cars, some of which are still in service ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...