Building an EPIC AEV RAM Prospector XL in Canada - RAM 3500 Limited Long Box in White! 

We've been talking full-size for years! ha ha! Thanks for watching and cheers from the team at EPIC!

Thanks for watching and commenting! We'll follow-up with part 2 shortly. Cheers from the team at EPIC!

Driving it is a blast. Thanks for watching. Cheers from the team at EPIC!

Go BIIIGGGGG! Cheers from the team at EPIC!

There is definite places this truck would work well and many it wouldn't be suited for.

Whale navigating a swimming pool is my new fav saying... ha ha. Cheers from the team at EPIC!

Agreed! This client has a sled deck going on the back and he carries ATVs and Motorbikes, etc. Cheers from the team at EPIC!

Personally I would do a flat deck with a better departure angle myself but... this isn't my truck.

imagine a splined extendable drive shaft for those flexi forest lookout moments. 😉

#oversight

This truck likely won't see the type of trails Shauns does, it should be good.

Should I?...

Ha Ha Gold Panning is in our future for sure! Cheers Jon!

You're in need of another hobby aren't you?

Always.

We do plan to re-gear this truck and add front & rear lockers but currently it looks like aftermarket lockers don't exist yet for one of the two diffs and the only re-gearing choice is 4.44 gear and the customer would prefer 4.88

Shaun's driveshaft didn't break any housing on his AEV Ram 2500 build, we will be looking into Shauns next week as all parts AEV requires for that build were installed.

Pretty much all lifts improve approach, break over and departure angles, as for this kit compared to Carli suspension, I personally believe they are two completely different types of kits. The Carli is definitely designed for more high speed abuse and this is more of an overloading style kit. This truck is built to haul his sleds around and tow a small off-road trail, no major wheeling.

@@TheEPICBeardedGinger Cool ! I may have to take another look at AEV for my next build as my use case is similar to what you just described. Towing a custom toy hauler with enduros and a Jeep around Alberta/BC and to Florida, Texas, Moab and Baja, mild offroad/ maybe recovery if absolutely necessary. Don't want to race the tow rig. Don't know about the 40's though, 37's or 38's seem to fit for the amount of highway I'm looking at.

After driving it around a bunch it brakes perfectly fine but we will be looking into possible brake upgrade options for the future.

I'll be honest, I left working at the Jeep dealer service department before that model even came out sir, I haven't really worked on anything without a frame in many years, sorry.

Surprisingly almost all lift kits for Ram 2500/3500s always come with a driveshaft spacer, we probably are one of the few that have been putting in custom driveshaft on builds to avoid doing transferase clocking on 4" lift builds which saves several issues that can arise with the transmission.

@@TheEPICBeardedGinger Thank you

@@TheEPICBeardedGinger my AEV that was built at their factory had a new drive shaft installed

Everyone likely uses spacers to keep cost down and not add something that requires maintenance like a double cardin joint in a driveshaft that no one will remember to do 🤷🏻‍♂️

This video and truck was built a month before we built Shaun’s, also this got the AEV driveshaft spacer as did Shauns which is all AEV provide or ever have required apparently. I am looking forward to inspecting Shaun’s Ram upon return next week 👍🏻

Just reviewed my build sheet and verified my 2024 AEV XL that was built at AEV factory had a brand new drive shaft installed I hope Sean opt tested all his gear to the max capability and capacity before goin on his trip

Tell your mom we said hello.

So all components are very high quality USA made parts, I do agree it looks like the kit doesn’t come with many parts and to most people getting spacers front and rear may seem like cheaping out but… AEV goes for the utilitarian approach, they wanted to maintain all the towing and truck capabilities hence the rear spacer block and using the OE rear leafs, they wanted to avoid having to clock the transfercase and create all kinds of issues by staying at 3” of lift height, and lastly the Ram HD trucks have over 30 front spring combinations due to the vast varying options on these trucks so to save making a coil to try and do the “jack of all trades” thing they designed a crazy cast steel spring spacer to not only lift the truck and keep the coil in its proper operation zone but also move the axle forward to provide tire clearance. Also there are a couple other neat parts but you get the gist.

definitely not a cheap kit