Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer. Built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. An air spring bag is simply the best cushion device on the planet.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps & damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highway with a typical hard connection. Helps eliminate jerks, bucking, bangs & chucking felt when towing.
- Easy Install in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge® Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- 30,000 lbs Tow & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented 30,000 lbs dual latching Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ gooseneck ball.
- Adjustable for Tow Weight: The Air Ride System sits behind your gooseneck hitch and out of the way. You will find the advantage of the Gooseneck Air Shocker is your ability to adjust air pressure for best ride and load control. View our Shocker PSI Air Pressure tuning guide. Heavy loads, just add air.
- Fits 2-5/16″ gooseneck hitch balls: & has 3 height adjustment holes. (Standard coupler extends 3″ forward from your factory coupler or choose 9″ extension coupler for short bed pickups).
- Patented Shift Lock™ Coupler: 30,000 lbs rated is the only gooseneck coupler that captures ball on both sides. At a glance, you can see if the coupler is locked on the ball. Easy to use handle to hook up and disconnect the coupler. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built in air ride system & dual bump cushions, replacement inner tube stem & 30,000 lb Shift Lock™ gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ ball.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving 1 mile or more per gallon.
- Improves Safety: By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup and the trailer.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: By reducing wear and tear on driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your passengers, cargo, horses, livestock & equipment to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the old days of continual bumps, jerks & vibrations.
- Gooseneck Stem Options: Available for 100 mm (3-15/16″) or 4″ Round Gooseneck Stems with straight pin holes (pin Not at an angle) on Merhow Trailers or choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem. Note: It’s often a 4″ round stem for 2016 & older Merhow gooseneck or for 2017 & newer, a 100mm (3-15/16″) round stem for Merhow trailers
- Simple Pivot Design: Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front & back motion, much different than other cushion hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms & other over engineered gadgets.
- Not Sure What You Need To Order? Order by Trailer Manufacture. Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg.
- Got a Short Bed Pickup? Check out our all new Gooseneck air hitch with 9″ extension. If you have a gooseneck trailer 3″ goose ball, check out our 40,000 lb gooseneck air hitch with 3″ ball coupler.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Round Tube Pin & Sizing Guide
The air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck horse trailer towing for your Merhow gooseneck trailer. Featuring a 30k rated Shift Lock™ goose air coupler for a 2-5/16″ hitch ball and fits the Merhow gooseneck horse, stock & toy haulers trailers. 9″ extension coupler option available if you are towing with a short box pickup truck. This cushioning gooseneck hitch with a built in air ride system and dual bump cushions, filters the ride, absorbs the rock shock, bucking, chucking, tugging and jerks. It makes for a smoother, safer towing experience on you, your pickup, trailer and the horses. The road shock absorbing hitch & gooseneck coupler absorbs the jerks, tugs and bumps of the road creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, trailer and its’ contents. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch & coupler is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is often times this is the biggest jerk & tug you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. Works great on gooseneck style horse trailers manufactured by Merhow Trailers. Completely replaces your factory goose stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
Note: Merhow gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 4″ or new 2017+ models have a 100mm (3-15.16″) round stem. Replacement inner tube stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location or you can also order it 9″ offset coupler for short bed pickup trucks.
California Residents: Prop 65 Warning
This is our forth shocker hitch. Wife didn’t think we needed one for our Merhow living quarters trailer until she experienced the ride with and without the hitch. Now she is a firm believer. If you don’t have one your getting beat up unnecessarily on your drive!