I travelled to Iceland last year, and had the pleasure of riding in one of your previous 6x6 ram 5500 creations. Your builds are an amazing mix of North American and Europe technology. I could be wrong, but I doubt these trucks exist anywhere else in the world. I really enjoyed seeing these trucks in person. Please keep building crazy vehicles like these!!!!
I have been waiting for someone to do a build like this!!! Made my day seeing someone swap unimog axles into a ram Cummins. The transfer case, suspension, drive shafts, brakes and steering set up are also amazing, this makes me wish y’all could get hired by a big automotive company to design a truck that should come from the factory
Truly impressive, I love your level of dedication to make sure everything was done right. The fan was the only weird thing to me ut I can see how retaining it as a factory setup is potentially more reliable. It would be great to see pictures of it next to a stock truck to really get a sense of how much bigger it is because everything has been scaled up to match the 58s and looks dimensionally correct.
You are amazing 😮. Dedication, experience, talent, and money!!! I would greatly enjoy having a friend and neighbor like you and your friends!!! A quote from my best friend and Lord concerning the tower of Babel, If they can think it they can do it!!! It's just amazing Indeed!!!
Thank you. This truck is arguably more capable than a modern Unimog. A modern Unimog U4000 is around 10 tons so it’s twice as heavy and the Unimog is around 230hp and 900nm of torque. This Ram is 500hp and around 1500nm of torque. In our experience the Ram trucks we have put on these Unimog axles are the most capable snow expedition trucks in Iceland.
We outsourced rolling of the large curved tubes and then we welded everything together at our shop using various pre-bent 90 degree tube sections and straight tubes.
That's a valid question. For an engine of this size and with 500 horsepower we would have needed a 50hp electric fan to sufficiently cool the engine. The stock fan can take up to 10 percent of the engines power on full blast. That's not really feasible and we do not have great experiences with electric fans due to ice and snow build up as well as reliability.
I have 2 16inch spal fans on my 44 inch patrol with 450hp. Havent experienced any issue with ice or snow. Cause they only turn on at certain temp when reached so snow after night in higlands is already melted :)
I travelled to Iceland last year, and had the pleasure of riding in one of your previous 6x6 ram 5500 creations. Your builds are an amazing mix of North American and Europe technology. I could be wrong, but I doubt these trucks exist anywhere else in the world. I really enjoyed seeing these trucks in person. Please keep building crazy vehicles like these!!!!
I like your build. It reminds me a bit of the "Hellboy" ""world's biggest offroad wrecker"".
Absolutely beautiful build.
I have been waiting for someone to do a build like this!!! Made my day seeing someone swap unimog axles into a ram Cummins. The transfer case, suspension, drive shafts, brakes and steering set up are also amazing, this makes me wish y’all could get hired by a big automotive company to design a truck that should come from the factory
Now dats a big truck well quit big and I just loved it....very nice 👍
I would love to see a video of this thing driving.
That's coming in the near future.
Seeing this gives me hope for solid axle swapping my 1500 with a pre ifs G Wagon front axle
Why that axle??
I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d won the lottery, but there would be signs.
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Truly impressive, I love your level of dedication to make sure everything was done right. The fan was the only weird thing to me ut I can see how retaining it as a factory setup is potentially more reliable. It would be great to see pictures of it next to a stock truck to really get a sense of how much bigger it is because everything has been scaled up to match the 58s and looks dimensionally correct.
Thank you very much, in our experience the mechanical fan is more reliable long term and it out-flows the electric fans on the market.
You are amazing 😮. Dedication, experience, talent, and money!!! I would greatly enjoy having a friend and neighbor like you and your friends!!! A quote from my best friend and Lord concerning the tower of Babel, If they can think it they can do it!!! It's just amazing Indeed!!!
Wow, thank you for the compliment
That's wild! 🫡
What a beast!
That is one heck of a rig nice build
Great work. Hopefully there will be a video of it driving in snow.
That's the plan!
WOW Now THAT is a truck. Love it! Really nice build!
Thanks, glad you like it.
Love it, definitely work of art!
this is what dreams are made of!
Great work gents, this is indeed a monster!
Much appreciated!
Well done, both of course the truck which is amazing and the video itself. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
The long hood and fenders make it look a bit goofy but it’s a bad ass machine either way!!
I love it beautiful work
❤ slightly concerned about front frame extension looked kind of thin metal that was put in there...
American: How do you make a RAM even better?
Iceland: “hold my beer”
Looks very cool, but would it not be cheaper and more reliable to just use an actual Unimog?
Thank you. This truck is arguably more capable than a modern Unimog. A modern Unimog U4000 is around 10 tons so it’s twice as heavy and the Unimog is around 230hp and 900nm of torque. This Ram is 500hp and around 1500nm of torque. In our experience the Ram trucks we have put on these Unimog axles are the most capable snow expedition trucks in Iceland.
Alveg sturlað hjá ykkur. Vonandi setjið þið myndband af honum í snjónum í vetur!
Awesome job. What would it take to drive one of those in Iceland? … I’d like to build one. 🤙🇨🇦
oh wow :O
Crazy build! It'd be cool to make some decals that look like original headlights to put in that place. It would keep the original look more.
We actually have thought about it and it could be very cool.
New sub. Excellent work!
Curious what a ballpark figure is of the cost of a job like this?
Do you run limit straps for the rear axle or just let the bags hold the weight at droop?
The rear shock absorbers are holding it in place at full droop.
$$$$$$ that thing is cool though
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I want to put big wheels n axles like these on a motorhome....
wow
I would be interested in watching that bad boy on the road and off road.....possibly??? 🤷
That's coming in the near future.
So why not just use the original Unimog? Or any of their other 4x4 trucks?
Is it because the Ram is significantly lighter in weight?
I guess because of comfort. Unimogs a very loud and there is not a lot of space inside compared to a us full size truck.
The Ram is more powerful and more capable when it has been modified like this. As well as being more comfortable to travel in.
Do you bend those roll bars in house?
We outsourced rolling of the large curved tubes and then we welded everything together at our shop using various pre-bent 90 degree tube sections and straight tubes.
Why not to use electric fans?
That's a valid question. For an engine of this size and with 500 horsepower we would have needed a 50hp electric fan to sufficiently cool the engine. The stock fan can take up to 10 percent of the engines power on full blast. That's not really feasible and we do not have great experiences with electric fans due to ice and snow build up as well as reliability.
I have 2 16inch spal fans on my 44 inch patrol with 450hp. Havent experienced any issue with ice or snow. Cause they only turn on at certain temp when reached so snow after night in higlands is already melted :)
Yes, electric fans definitely work in various builds. We just preferred not to use them on this build :)
Cause the mechanical fan outflows every electric fan on the market
@@Gregpaulluvr124100% mechanical fan always my first choice
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