Product Description
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- Smoother Safer Towing Every Mile – Air Ride Weight Distribution Hitch Kit: Add bolt on air ride towing to your pickup & camper or trailer in minutes. It filters and absorbs road shock, tugs, jerks, bumps, bangs, and sways through the built in air ride suspension system, creating a smooth ride. It directs the normal towing resistance between the pickup and the trailer through the air ride system, which produces a much smoother ride. It also naturally reduces trailer sway by filtering and absorbing the changing tongue weight that occurs when towing on uneven or rough roads.
- Easy to Adjust Chain Style Weight Distribution Hitch Levels Your Pickup Truck: Evenly distributes the weight over the axles of your towing pickup & trailer to add stability & control. Chain style design makes it easier to adjust the load bars. If your truck is squatting from the weight on the trailer, this will distribute the weight evenly across the pickup and trailer. This is great for travel camping trailers, heavy duty trailers, race trailers and toy haulers.
- Easily Adjust Air Pressure for Ride Comfort, Trailer Tow Weight & Load Control: You can easily fine-tune and adjust the air pressure for the best ride and load control on every trip. For heavier loads, increase the air pressure; for lighter loads reduce it. A cushion, steel spring or torsion hitch is not adjustable for tow weight or tongue weight. The air ride equalizer allows for better control of your pickup & trailer.
- Designed to Fits Pickup Trucks Only & Vehicles with Leaf Springs: This is designed for pulling with a Pickup Truck and vehicles with Leaf Springs. It will Not work with SUV/CUVs with coil-over springs in the rear. This is perfect for travel use with camping trailers, heavy-duty trailers, race trailers, and toy haulers.
- Reduces Stress, Breakage, Wear & Tear on Truck, Trailer, Cargo & Equipment: Our air ride equalizer for a WD hitch reduces wear and tear on the pickup truck, driveline, trailer and frame. The shock absorbing and dampening design of an air hitch creates less stress on tow vehicle and trailer. Less stress means less wear and tear on both the tow vehicle and the trailer frame and welds. It’s a must have for newer trailers with aluminum frames that tend to crack because of rough roads and a traditional hard truck to trailer connection. An air ride hitch will greatly reduce the chances of frame cracking and breaking.
- Reduces Stress on Passengers & Animals: Passengers and animals experience less stress while being towed. The shock dampening design effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads and concrete highway, which you would normally feel with a typical hard connection. This makes the ride smoother and less stressful inside the tow vehicle and the trailer.
- Saves Money & Improves Fuel Economy: By reducing trailer breakage on both the trailer & cargo. The air equalizer absorbs the damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection. This greatly reduces the chances of breaking welds & doing other long-term damage to your equipment & valuable cargo. Customers report 1 to 2 miles per gallon because the tow vehicle & trailer work together better with less friction, which reduces downshifting and improves performance.
- Adjustable for Rise or Drop with 12,000 lbs of GTW: Get 12,000 lbs gross trailer weight & 1,200 lbs tongue weight capacity. Plus 7 or 9″ of Adjustment (5″ of rise to 2″ drop or choose 5″ rise to 4″ drop). Fine tuned for your towing weight. Just add air for heavier loads.
- Available for 2″, 2-1/2″ & 3″ receiver hitches: Works great on GMC Sierra, Chevy Silverado, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Dodge Ram, Ford F150, F250, F350, F450, F550 Super Duty, Toyota Tundra, Tacoma, Nissan Titan, Frontier, and Honda Ridgeline pickup trucks.
- Shocker Air Ride Equalizer Weight Distribution Hitch Kit System includes: Air Equalizer, Adjustable XR Channel Hitch with two hitch pins with clips, Chain Style Round Bar Weight Distribution Hitch with 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball. Designed to fit 2-5/16″ trailer couplers, if you have a 2″ trailer coupler you will need to change the hitch ball. It is also compatible with supporting 2 friction sway arms, which are sold separately. (Shocker Sway Bar Kit)
- Premium Matte Black Powder Coat Finish: Constructed out of heavy-duty steel that is finished with a premium textured black powder-coat finish on the air equalizer & the XR hitch.
- 20+ Mount Attachment Options: The XR channel hitch, when not used with this air equalizer, also works well with all our Shocker receiver hitch ball mount attachments, which include Combo Ball, Drop, Raised, Sway Bar Tab Options, Pintle, Pintle with Ball, Drawbar, Clevis Pin, Shackle & More.
- How to set the air? After you hook up WD bars, air the hitch until the truck side bump cushions are not compressed. If the trailer side bump cushions are compressed, you have too much air in the air ride system. See video
- Safety Notice: Towing capacity is limited by the lowest rated component. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
FAQ
- What Does A Shocker Air Receiver Hitch Do?
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- Preventing Trailer Sway
- What Hitch Size Does My Truck Have?
- What is Towing Capacity?
- Shocker Hitch Uses & Applications
- How To Measure Receiver Hitch Size
- What’s the Benefit of an Air Hitch?
- How to Level A Trailer
- Truck Squatting with Trailer
- Alternatives to a Weight Distribution Hitch?
- Types of Trailers
- Greasing Hitch Ball
Upgrade your camper towing experience with our Shocker Air Ride Equalizer with a chain style weight distribution hitch. The Shocker Hitch Equalizer® with built in air ride system absorbs the bumps, bangs, jerks and tugs normally experienced when towing by filtering the road shock through the air ride system. Safer and smoother every mile. The chain style wd hitch helps level the load when your pickup is squatting and can’t handle the tongue weight of your camper. The chain style round bar design makes it easier to load and adjustable the load bars. The Shocker Air Equalizer™ easily bolts to the included weight distribution hitch head which has a 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball. The built-in Shocker air ride system cushions and smooths out your ride while the weight distribution system keeps your truck and trailer level and the load balanced.
The air ride weight distribution hitch also has 4 bump cushions for additional performance and provided extra cushioning on road roads to reduce the chucking, tugs, and jerks you feel when towing a camper & pickup with a weight distribution system. The added advantage of the Shocker air ride weight distribution kit is your ability to adjust air pressure up or down for changing tongue weights as well as for best ride and load control. Reduces damage, wear & tear on truck, trailer and cargo. Less stress on you, your passengers and animals. This kit is designed for pickup trucks only with leaf springs. This Shocker Air Equalizer has 12,000 lbs gross trailer weight & 1,200 lbs tongue weight capacities. It offers 7 inches or 9″ of adjustment up or down with (+5″ rise to -2″ of drop) or 9″ (+5″ rise to -4″ of drop) depending on the kit chosen.
The air ride design is easier and less stressful on you, your passengers, pickup, trailer & cargo. Air equalizer is manufactured in Jamestown, ND, by Shocker Hitch. The Chain Style W-D Hitch & friction sway arms portion of this kit is made in China.
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First off, I ordered the wrong hitch. After a considerable time, I finally was getting to the install and verifying what I needed versus what I had. James set me up pretty easy and quickly. I received the new weight distribution w/chain set up and installed it myself. The one thing I can say I changed was the metal screws were changed to a 7/16-14x1in bolt.
I wanted the Shocker Hitch WD w/chain for simplicity and the reduction of what I call road feed back. I can simply say that the hitch I have has exceeded expectations. Between my wife and my dogs they have made a believer out of me. The Hitch itself is substantial so if you’re over 70 yrs old or have a bad back I would say check it out prepurchase. But if you can handle the weight that this the best hitch I have found. It appears to be extremely versatile with all the different attachments you can swap out. 10 out of 10 I’d buy again!
I waited to provide a review after 1k miles of towing. I can’t imagine not having this hitch. It’s a dream to not feel the bumps of the trailer on the hitch to the point that I have to check and see if the trailer is even back there. The ride is so smooth now. After years of towing I couldn’t imagine that it was even possible for towing to be this smooth and enjoyable. Towing an empty trailer is equally as enjoyable when I leave the equalizer bars off @ 40lbs of air in the shock bag. The only regret has been not finding this product years earlier.