RAM 2500 Trailhound Gets An Extreme Makeover With This One Accessory That Completely Transforms It!

[@mphRagnarok]

The Ram is the best looking of the HD trucks these last few years... The Ford and gm just look like a stack of text books with how tall and square their fronts are.

[@Defender_Tom]

AEV makes some premium products. I put this bumper, a winch, and their fender flares on my RAM w/ 41” tires. Instructions were great. It was hard work by myself, but doable. All their parts still look brand new on the truck and have been on for 3 years now.

[@rlaracue]

This truck build has been epic. Really love the bumper/light/winch additions. Great build!

[@JasonExplainsThings]

Shout out to Nate from AEV!

[@AmericanExpeditionVehicles]

Nice work!

[@TheMountainMisfits]

Love it!!

[@shawnriddle3018]

Gotta love Nate. This truck is awesome. The silver color with the black looks real sweeet! Thanks to this channel i found my dream truck back in 2015. I bought my 15 AEV Prospector Power Wagon. 31,000.0 miles now. Came with 37's from the dealer lot. Looking forward to seeing more videos with the Trail hound.

[@jaykanngiesser3454]

AEV makes some beautiful gear. If I could afford, would LIVE to replicate this build.

[@jasonlovell3934]

That is a great shop I would let them work on our rock crawler if I lived there. The truck could use some rock sliders.

[@TheMountainMisfits]

That is one sick rig!! Hopefully my truck will look like that in 10 years haha!

[@brian2359]

You need to look into long travel air bags for the rear! It’s a must for a rig setup like yours!

[@AdventureBraten01]

Finally you guys added some aev parts

[@domh7367]

Love it! Only problem I see is tree limbs going threw that firewood rack skid an punching into that radiator but other than that I love it. Looks strong an stylish like it came from factory

[@advnate]

I won't say it is impossible, but this skid plate at a minimum is 18" off of the ground and adds more protection than the stock bumper. I have been on many trails using our front bumper. I haven't had to worry about sticks punching the intercooler. There isn't a chance for your front tires to kick up a stick to puncture the intercooler since this intercooler is in front of the tires. I can only see that as a possibility if you plan to drive over down trees with significant branches. I would suggest either cutting the tree out of the way or at least the branches that could cause an issue.

[@scorpionsting47]

Nice bumper. Doesn't really match the dodge style lines though. Big gaps under the headlights. But the more rounded shape of the stampings mimic the ram good.

[@advnate]

I wish we could have had a smaller gap as well. One thing to remember the frame and body do not flex the same when offroading and we have seen, off-road, that gap is necessary due to the flex differences between the body and the frame.

[@scottdm9707]

@@advnate May want to consider a rubber gasket/flexible material to cover the gap.

[@TREVORJB101]

Awesome video! I can't believe I forgot all about this bad ass rig!

[@WW-wf8tu]

That's because it spends more time being re-purposed than used. 🤣

[@bc6806]

That’s a lot of money 💰. Nothing but the best for you guys. Surprised you didn’t buy a AEV prospector XL.

[@abqcrutch]

Loving the Trailhound. You should add some rock sliders/steps. Something like Maple Off-road's rock sliders w/rub-rails.

[@erin7995]

wow grilll completely changes the truck in a god way

[@jasonpitts8395]

Good looking truck and winch. You guys should take it through the TFL offroad obstacle course. Take the camper shell off first.

[@justintarvid]

It wouldn't make it through the course. It's still a stock Ram 2500.

[@TheLhsgrad]

Looks good. Tommy should do a LS swap in the French wagon

[@Wanderlust073]

Know where I’m taking my 2500 now…. Good vid

[@thomasbenefield3527]

Sweet! Way to make a cool truck even better!

[@anthonysourdiff1835]

The truck is looking great.👍

[@Stoney_AKA_James]

Nice rig!

[@jackthibodeau6810]

I made a custom steel bumper for my 2007 ram. Mainly it was there for a winch but recently it saved my truck. I hit a deer going 40mph and the bumper was fine and the truck was fine. I reccomend push bumpers to anyone one who can get one

[@GrenadierMichael]

Interesting about wiring the auxiliary lights. That's just the way everyone’s always done it in Australia, and your car wouldn’t be road legal without it.

[@daveallen7767]

Was approach angle improved with this install ?

[@sergiomendoza4250]

The RAM is cummins along very nice! However I’m surprised the weak halogen headlights were not upgraded at this time.

[@lanceripplinger8352]

Great build!

[@J.Young808]

Hope you guys set in the winch line.

[@JarmelSingsKaraoke]

HAPPY SATURDAY EVERYONE ✌️ HOPE EVERYBODY HAS A GOOD DAY...

[@NatesHomeTours]

Aux lights with high beams is easy. I do it with my light bars all the time. No switch needed ever. Use a relay and have full time power and ground to relay. Use the power wire to your high beams as the trigger. Now every time you hit the high beams or flash someone not turning theirs off you have your light bar come on at the same time. Now to what the guy said about the lights melting the covers, How? LED's put out no heat in the front. At most maybe enough to feel a slight difference when its cold out. Other than the the heat fins on back will have all the heat. So the front will not melt the covers, unlike the Halogen versions will.

[@advnate]

I might not answer this the best but, from what I understand it's similar to using a magnifying glass and starting things on fire.

[@NatesHomeTours]

@@advnate Maybe, I was more focused on the heat output of the lights themselves.

[@Cbat124]

Great video

[@zmotorpro]

Sweet setup TFL! Now the question we are all wanting to ask... What is the all in price, truck & build?

[@necstanunn]

More than most of watching could afford

[@clarkstonguy1065]

If I were wheeling in a 6.7L this bumper would be on it!

[@JesseMcDMusic]

Would love to see a set of those new BFG HD Trail tires on this rig!

[@slidewide1999]

The HD Terain KT’s? Those tires look cool, unfortunately they don’t make any big sizes yet.

[@cottonhiker]

Love it 🙏🇺🇸💪🏼

[@Dazza-u4c]

Wiring up spotlights to high beam has been law in Australia for decades.

[@jayhiggins5239]

Wish you had measured fender height before and after.

[@somekidzenvy]

Ok now I have to know what are the plans for that Peugeot?

[@scottdm9707]

If this is a vehicle specific bumper for the RAM 2500, why is there such a large gap between the bumper and the headlights? Makes it look like the truck has a body lift.

[@jayallen7368]

Get rid of the grid heater and swap to banks the grid heater is a engine kill with its weak bolts that snap off and cause engine failure

[@MDR.TRUCKS]

How much is it? thank you guys good video

[@J.Young808]

What if someone wants to run the auxiliary lights without the headlights?

[@advnate]

I get that question often, and I cannot see a scenario in which I would want to run my auxiliary lights without the headlights. The 7000 series lights are more powerful than the high beams but the high beams do help.

[@nathanwoten6236]

The intercooler gaurd is cool but a stick or anything else can go through the gaurd verry easily kts basicly only good if your going to run in to a large rock or stump or somethimg anything smaller will go right into the intercooler still. Something like a solid skid plate with a bunvh of dimple died holes would of been a better design to actually protect the intercooler and they could of used some kinda vent or what ever you wanna call it to devert more air to the intercoler to help keep sufficient air flow

[@advnate]

I won't say it is impossible, but this skid plate at a minimum is 18" off of the ground and adds more protection than the stock bumper. I have been on many trails using our front bumper. I haven't had to worry about sticks punching the intercooler. There isn't a chance for your front tires to kick up a stick to puncture the intercooler since this intercooler is in front of the tires. I can only see that as a possibility if you plan to drive over down trees with significant branches. I would suggest to either cutting the tree out of the way or at least the branches that could cause an issue.

[@spartanchirho]

Want to see it run tumble weed course etc!!!!

[@renflo86]

Bad ass!

[@davidmilhouscarter8198]

0:49 Does Nate also have a crack named after him?

[@xziang]

Bumper=$2,700 Warn 16.5ti-S Winch=$3,520. Lights 7000 series = $1,120. Intercooler skid=479. Grand total for these items = $7,819.00. (Didn't include some items i know)

[@stacysid2]

I need that front bumper for my 2006 3500...Betcha don't make it for that do ya???

[@advnate]

Sorry, We started making parts for the Ram around 2015 and only made it for that generation (2010-2018) and the current generation like in the video 2019+

[@malloced]

Pretty great for a "farm truck"

[@danielreynolds9583]

Should’ve done carli suspension

[@WW-wf8tu]

So this one time meant as a "ranch truck" turned into an "overland truck" is now a "recovery 4x4 truck". My question is, what ever happened to that Jeep you bought for recoveries???? All outfitted with a ton of accessories/modifications including a winch that was going to be used as now you say this truck is going to be used for. For that matter, didn't you have an old FJ40 that was going to be your recovery rig? And David was going to build a truck of his own for the on-X OR recovery course. And of course, you have side by sides that come in and are the ones actually doing the recovery. lol Very confusing. Oh and I almost forgot, you had a Unimog there at 1 time as well that was going to do some recoveries, but all it did was drag around a small SUV in the grass. 🤷‍♂

[@TFLoffroad]

Please stay tuned

[@WW-wf8tu]

@@TFLoffroad Oh I have been. lol Like reading a book. The story never ends. Just feels like some of the pages get torn out and I miss complete chapters. lol

[@stewie84]

Bro… it’s money…. They’re selling things. Relax

[@albertatundra]

Total cost?

[@WW-wf8tu]

Free. Promotional videos like this don't cost them anything. 😉

[@necstanunn]

And if they did pay for it... most of us can't afford it

[@IronmanV5]

That style bumper would look great on Andre's Colorado

[@TaigaTurf]

That bumper is awesome.. Chrome sucks

[@Phantom0309]

@14:44 is this bit a joke or something?

[@isalido1]

vleds to replace halogens

[@jonathanhummelman6505]

I think TFL needs to say goodbye to this cummins and buy a 24 GMC Duramax AT4X HD

[@matthewprather7386]

I liked it better at stock height and tire size. Would have been more generally practical if you had just changed over to AT tires.

[@9663mu]

Hopefully the frame don’t crack with all that weight 😂

[@kennethjinkins8967]

ha ha ha , Ram junk