etrailer | Installing the Curt Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on your 2015 Ram 2500

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Hi there Ram owners, today in your 2015 Ram 2,500, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install CURT's front hitch. The way I feel about this hitch is it's one of the best ways to maximize the versatility of your truck.If you're using it just recreationally, it's going to allow you to take accessories that you would normally have in the back, put them in the front to free up space in the back. Maybe you're going to be pulling a trailer along with you and you can't fit it back there.I also like it for work applications. If you're going to be using this industrially, you can get that extender on the front and you can haul some extremely long pieces of wood, some PVC pipe, ladders, whatever else you need to get done.The receiver does pass through the front here at the bottom, but it's tucked back so far that really when you're standing up looking at it, you almost don't even notice it. Not until you get up down here in the front can you even tell that it's really there.And this is going to offer a two inch by two inch receiver here at the front for all the various different accessories you might want to use here, whether it be maybe carrying a small dirt bike here at the front. If you wanted to put a small motorcycle carrier on it, maybe even a really small motorcycle, could also use it for extenders such as a ladder rack extender.If you want to go over the cab or maybe you're carrying kayaks, something like that you can do.

And it's also great for snowplows, winches. Anything you want to add in real quickly, you can take those in and out real easily. And if you have trailers and you got a real tight spot you want to put them in back at your house, and using the back of your truck at times struggling getting that in there. If you put your ball in the front here, you can have a much easier time maneuvering that trailer around by placing the steer wheels right up in front of your trailer.Our hitch is going to use a five eight inch, hitch pin and clip. Now one doesn't come included with the hitch, but we've got plenty here at etrailer.com.

You can also get locking ones to protect your investment for whatever accessories you've got here in the front. And we also have anti-rattle devices available if you want to take out the play on any of your accessories, you don't have to listen to them going down the road.This hitch offers a 500 pound ton weight, which is the force going down on top of the receiver. So you just want to keep that in mind when you've got your accessories here in the front, maybe if you're using it for a bike rack or a small dirt bike or motorcycle, you want to make sure you don't exceed that 500 pound weight, and that's going to include your accessory that's in the hitch plus anything that's on it.It also features a 5,000 pound gross trailer weight rating, and that's if you we're wanting to put a ball mount here in the front and move some stuff around, you can do a trailer up to 5,000 pounds in weight. There are no safety chain loops on this, and you can obviously pull in reverse or anything like that. It's just for maneuvering a trailer around so you can easily get it into the spot in your driveway.And it also features a 9,000 pound line pull.

So if you have a winch up in here and you wanted to pull something out, that's going to be your maximum pull with this hitch.Now I've got some measurements for you to help you when deciding on accessories. From the center of our hitch pin hole, to the edge of our front bumper, it measures about 10 inches. And this is important when determining if your accessories can be fully inserted into the hitch. And if they have an upright storage position, if they can be placed in that without contacting the bumper.And from the ground to the top inside of the receiver tube, it measures about 14 1/2 inches. This is important when determining that you have the proper clearance, if any of the drop rise or raise shank in any of your accessories.And now we talk about the installation, this is actually quite easy to get installed.

Some of the bolts and hardware can be difficult to see. So you might first look up under there and go, "What am I supposed to do" But if you follow along with us, we're going to point out those hardware. It's really not a lot of steps. So it'll be over before you know it.We'll begin our installation here at the front of the vehicle by cutting out a notch for our hitch. I've already m