I'mv sure this is a stupid question and the wrong place to ask it but I plan on traveling on my Ruck a good bit the next few months, and I was wondering if an aftermarket variator could cause me problems down the line? Thanks in advance for any wise words.

I would say it would be in your best interest to do the variator before you start putting a lot of miles on your ruck

Thanks dude!

just ordered this today can't wait to get it

SlickSpeed is on back order so i switched to the Drag.

Jason is the man. Great customer service he will be getting all of my business.

seems nice. a good cheap variator to test the waters on.

Im about 150lbs, 5'9", stock ruck. I got a slick speed variator over the winter and just installed it a couple weeks ago, along with a Daytona belt and put the 6gram rollers in to break it in. I put about 30 or so miles on it. The acceleration is great but top speed on flats and even bombing down big hills I top out at 40mph, but dont seem to be hitting rev limiter.

After reading this thread Im going to try and install the stock boss with this setup and see what that does to my top speed. I also might try out (3) 5.5g rollers and (3) 6g rollers after another 30 miles to make sure belt is good and broken in.

All in all, it was a great purchase! I'll be back with results of boss and roller changes in about 2-3weeks

So I went to change my SlickSpeed boss out for the stock one to see if it makes a difference on my setup since it was stated that the stock boss might give a little more top end. Got it all apart, went to put stock boss and it wouldn't go in. Hmmm, tried again putting other side of boss in first, still no go. Went to see if the SS boss was same width as stock and I saw this...




sorry its kind of hard to see in the pics because they are from my phone, but you can pretty much see where it looks like theres a chunk taken out of it, or like a pipe was cut in half but not all the way through then the piece was broken off. Then I looked on the inside of the variator where the boss rides and it looked all scratched up and when you spin the SS boss in the SS variator you can feel it kind of scratching/rubbing.

Is this going to ruin my variator? Will it hinder performance? Why does the stock boss pretty much slide out of stock variator by itself but the stock boss does not fit in SS variator and the SS boss actually only really fits like its suppose to when I put the chipped part in first. If I try the other end into the variator it feels pretty tight.

btw... I have about 30 miles on SS variator/boss

was the boss damaged like that before you put it in?

I honestly didnt inspect it before I installed it but there are not any marks on the stock one that I installed so I am guessing it was damaged before I installed it.