Product Description
- Smoother Safer Towing Every Mile with Air Ride Sway Control Round Bar WD Hitch Kit: Add bolt on air ride towing to your pickup & camper or trailer in minutes. Filters, dampens & absorbs road shock, tugs, jerks, bumps, bangs, and sways through the Shocker air ride suspension system, creating a smooth ride. Directs the normal towing resistance between the pickup & trailer through the air ride system, which produces a much smoother ride & naturally reduces trailer sway by filtering and absorbing the changing tongue weight that occurs when towing on concrete highways, uneven & rough roads.
- Easily Adjust Air Pressure for Trailer Tow Weight, Maximum Conform & Overall Load Control: The air ride equalizer allows for better control of your pickup & trailer. Fine-tune & adjust the air pressure for the best ride comfort 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 its either to soft or to hard.
- 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 towing campers, heavy-duty equipment trailers, race trailers, and toy haulers.
- 2 Friction Sway Arm Bar Systems (1 per side) Included: Adjust to stiffens the the left & right side connection between your truck and trailer a-frame, keeping your trailer towing down the road straight and in line with the tow vehicle. Sway control friction arm assembly has two 1-1/4″ trailer mounted mini ball, two 1-1/4″ hitch mounted ball with a lock washers and nuts for your WD hitch head with sway bar mount tabs along with four metal lag screws and two retaining clips. Ideal for travel trailers, camping trailers, heavy duty trailers, race trailers and toy haulers.
- Easy to Install Round Bar Weight Distribution Hitch Levels Your Pickup Truck: Prevents truck from squatting & distributes the weight over the axles of your towing pickup & trailer for more stability & control. Round bar load bars use the trailer to lift the rear pickup suspension when your truck is squatting from the weight on the trailer.
- Reduces Stress, Breakage, Wear & Tear on Truck, Trailer, Cargo & Equipment: Our air ride equalizer for a WD hitch reduces wear & tear on the pickup truck, driveline, trailer and frame. The shock absorbing and dampening design of an air ride tow hitch creates less stress on truck & trailer. Less stress means less wear & tear. It’s a must have for for aluminum trailers that tend to crack over time from stress with traditional hard truck to trailer connection.
- More Comfort & Less Stress on Passengers & Animals: Passengers & animals experience a more comfortable ride with less stress. This design effectively absorbs the jerks, chucking, bucking, bouncing & damaging forces experienced when towing. This makes the ride smoother and less stressful inside the pickup & trailer.
- Saves Money & Improves Fuel Mileage: By reducing wear, tear & breakage on both the trailer & cargo. The air equalizer absorbs the damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection. This lowers the chances of breaking welds & doing damage to your equipment & cargo. Customers report 1 to 2 miles per gallon because the pickup & trailer work together better with less friction, which reduces downshifting & 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.
- Complete Sway Control Air Ride Equalizer Round Bar WD Hitch Kit includes: Air Ride Equalizer, Adjustable XR Channel Hitch with two handled hitch pins w/clips, Round Bar Weight Distribution Hitch with 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball & two complete friction arm sway bars with all mounting hardware. Designed to fit 2-5/16″ trailer couplers, if you have a 2″ trailer coupler you will need to change the hitch ball.
- Premium Textured 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 Pressure? 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 Bumper Pull Trailer Towing
- What Does an Air Ride Receiver Hitch Do?
- Alternatives to a Weight Distribution Hitch?
- Drop Hitch Calculator
- Preventing Trailer Sway
- What Hitch Size Does My Truck Have?
- Towing Capacity 101
- Shocker Hitch Uses
- How To Measure Receiver Hitch Size
- Air Ride Hitch Advantages
- How to Level A Trailer
- How To Fix My Truck Swagging with Trailer
- Types of Trailers
- Greasing Hitch Ball
It’s time to tow with ease of mind & have a safe, smooth trip. Get a smoother towing every mile. Safe, smooth and a straight towing experience when adding air ride with a sway control weight distribution kit to our pickup & camper towing setup. The premium Air Ride Shocker Hitch Equalizer® features an air spring bag along with 4 bump cushions & smooths out your ride while the adjustable round bar weight distribution system keeps your truck from squatting and levels get the truck & trailer level. Once you add in the dual friction sway control arm bars, your ride will now be smooth, level and tow straight down the road.
You can adjust the air equalizer up or down to be the proper drop or rise along with fine tuning the air pressure for tongue weight, optimum ride comfort and load control. The sway bars are adjustable to fine-tune for sway resistance. When towing a trailer, you may experience trailer sway from wind, passing vehicles, & rough & uneven road surfaces. The jerks and bounces change the tongue weight, which can cause sway or lessen steering control, the air ride wd hitch, absorbs this making it not only smoother but safer. Plus it reduces damage, give you more control and makes it easier on you, your passengers, animals, pickup, trailer, cargo & gear.
The Shocker Hitch Equalizer® is an air hitch combined with a load leveling weight-distributing hitch with sway control absorbs the road shock & cushions the chucking, tugs, & jerks you feel when towing a camper & pickup with a weight distribution system. 12,000 lbs GTW & 1,200 lbs TW.
The Air equalizer is made in the USA by Shocker Hitch, Jamestown, ND. The WD hitch & sway bars are made in China.
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Such a better ride. Wish I did this years ago