Fab Fours Premium Bumpers for Dodge Ram 4500/5500

The Front Bumper and Its Winch Mount

Every Premium front is winch-ready. The mount takes a winch up to 16,500 pounds. That is enough to pull a loaded rig off a soft shoulder or move equipment around a job site, and it holds a smaller winch just as well. A one-inch D-ring anchor sits on each side of the face for a strap or a shackle. The mount comes in two pieces. The play between them lets you level the bumper on an older truck whose front end has taken years of work. Fab Fours also sets a 90mm LED fog light and a 60mm LED turn signal into each front, and those come in the box.

The three builds share that winch mount. What sets them apart is how much steel stands over the grille, and the right one follows the work. Match the build to the job. The Full Guard wraps the grille and headlights in steel, the pick for a plow truck or a rig on rough job sites. The No Guard leaves the nose open and low. That suits a service truck that wants the winch and the heavy steel without a cage up front. The Pre-Runner runs a single bar across the middle, the step between the two, with room for lights. An open front runs about 300 pounds, a full wrap closer to 385. That is real weight on the front axle of a truck that already works loaded.

One split follows your year. Front parking sensors only reached the 2016 through 2018 trucks. No Ram before 2016 left the factory with sensors in the front bumper. So the 2010 through 2015 trucks take the plain front. The 2016 through 2018 trucks take either the plain front or a sensor version that reads the factory sensors. Most 4500 and 5500 chassis cabs were ordered as work trucks without front park assist, so the plain front covers the majority of them. On a truck that does have the sensors, two things to know. Anything left in the fairlead, a shackle or a recovery hook, can register on them. And Fab Fours sets its sensors for a lifted truck, so a Ram at stock height usually needs them tuned after the install.

The Rear Bumper, and the Bed It Needs

The rear is a different call on these trucks. Fab Fours builds one rear bumper here, a formed 3/16-inch steel step bumper at 200 pounds, and it bolts on where a factory rear bumper would sit. That means it needs a bed and a tailgate. A 4500 or 5500 that left the upfitter as a service body, a flatbed, or a dump takes care of its own back end. Those trucks run the front bumper alone. The one this rear fits is a truck still wearing a pickup bed.

Where it fits, it works. A step is worked into each corner by the tailgate, so you climb into the bed without bolting on a separate one later. The factory hitch receiver and its wiring stay put, so a gooseneck or a bumper pull hooks up the way it always did. Each corner carries its own three-quarter-inch D-ring anchor for recovery. It reads the factory rear sensors. It does not relocate a factory camera, though, so a truck with a camera in the old bumper needs that handled on its own. One year note: the rear lists the Ram 4500 through 2018 and the Ram 5500 through 2017, so a 2018 Ram 5500 runs the front alone.

Which Ram 4500 and 5500 Years Fit

This Premium set is cut for one generation, the 2010 through 2018 Ram 4500 and 5500. Ram redrew the chassis cab for 2019 with a new frame and a new front end. Those trucks take different steel, not what is on this page. So a 2019 or newer 4500 or 5500 is a separate search. Inside the 2010 to 2018 run, the front covers every year. The rear fits the 4500 through 2018 and the 5500 through 2017.

The drivetrain makes no difference to the fit. Whether your Ram runs the Cummins diesel or the gas V8, Fab Fours cuts the same steel for the body. It bolts on with no cutting. These are heavy pieces, and they ship on a freight crate, so have someone on hand and a jack ready for the install. Shipping runs free anywhere in the US. For a 2019 or newer truck, or for another brand on your 2010 to 2018 Ram, the Ram 4500 and 5500 bumper page has the rest.

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