MOPED ARMY

the multivar does this too. i removed the nylon washer and it works great. i guess you can add different spacing washers to the inside of the variator and get results also but i don't really want to mess with those.

you got it. nut by itself. totally ok. most of the time it wont even touch because the belt naturally holds the variator away from the nut.

sounds like you are going to need to adjust some of the spacing washers in the variator to give you a little more play. i didn't want to do this myself because i have no clue what this does to the variator. i know you can get them at handy bikes. i ordered a new one for the inside cheek of my variator and they sent me a shit ton of them varying in thickness. some of them were even see through nylon. weird but you can get em. maybe you might check out the engine parts manual they have and look for the washers for certain bikes that the variators work on. i know my set up worked and i have a lvs. the washer i would try and replace would be the inside cheek one(facing the side of the bike). its pretty thick already and when i was having problems with my variator idling i had to replace it cuz it got munched. the one i used was a bit thinner and it didn't alter perf at all.

thats the one.

yeah you need that washer(the nylon one thas grooved on one side). maybe thats the problem. i would think that would give you more play but maybe its allowing you to tighten the variator nut too much? i dunno. maybe wait for some other peeps to chime in with their expertise.

I have the nylon washer that sort of sits inside where the back variator nut is, the one I am refering to is number 10 in the pic, i think you are talking about number 12 which I have and is in good shape.

weird. i was talking about #30 actually. its a nylon thrust washer that keeps the rolling bearings in place. i don't think i have #10 either. variators are mucho strange mojo.

I must be missing that all I have is a steel spacer pressed into the plate holding the roller bearings in and the flat nylon washer with the 2 tabs on it.

Could be why when I cinch it down the whole thing locks up.

i am using the nut that came with the malossi variator.

Mine is definatly the one with the nylon washers, I think I just need a different nut. The way it is now I can't torque down the nut but it looks like it will work just fine.

So what's size is that nut?