Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing: Improves your ride, reduces wear & tear on pickup & trailer. Air Ride Technology with built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. Just add air depending on the weight of your trailer and its contents. An air ride system is simply the best cushion device on the planet.
- Easy Install in Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Installs in Minutes.
- Absorbs Road Shock: Helps eliminate tugs, jerks, bangs, chucking & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways. Built in air ride system along dual external bump cushions, plus internal bump inside of air spring bag offer heavy duty, yet very smooth performance.
- 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.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highway with a typical hard connection.
- 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs Tow & up to 8,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented dual latching Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck ball. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on 9″ offset and 7,000 lbs TW standard air hitch). 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems and up to 40,000 lbs GTW for square stem options.
- Choose for 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck hitch balls: & has 3 height adjustment holes. (Standard coupler extends 3″ forward from your factory coupler or choose 9″ extension for short bed pickups). 2-5/16″ coupler is rated at 30,000 lbs GTW and 3″ coupler is rated at 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs tongue weight.
- Dual Latching Shift Lock™ Coupler: Patented gooseneck coupler. 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 from the ball. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- Choose Square or Round Stem: Horizon gooseneck trailers come with 4-1/2″ square stems, along with 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems with angled pin holes (pin Not straight) and 4″ round stems with straight pin holes (pin not at an angle). Or choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system, replacement inner tube stem & Shift Lock™ gooseneck coupler. Choose for a 2-5/16″ or 3″ ball.
- Simple Pivot Design: Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front and back motion, much different than other cushion hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for parallel linkages, shock absorbers, torsion arms, and other over engineered gadgets.
- 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 it is towing.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle & Gooseneck: By reducing wear and tear on driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the ‘old days’ of continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations. Join the list of satisfied customers who are using Shocker hitches.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Have a different trailer brand? Click this link to Find Your Gooseneck Surge Air Hitches by Trailer Mfg
Round Tube Pin & Sizing Guide
The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch is the ultimate in smooth towing for Horizon gooseneck trailers. Works for Horizon gooseneck flatbed, dump, car hauler, deck over, trailers with gooseneck. It features a patented shift lock coupler for 2-5/16″ or a 3″ gooseneck hitch ball and fits the Horizon gooseneck trailers with a 100mm (3-15/16″), 4″ round inner tube stem or 4.5″ square stem tubes. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is often times this is the biggest jerk you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. Whether you are an occasionally tow with a gooseneck or a hotshot, this shock absorbing hitch for a Horizon gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style from Horizon. Features up to 40,000 lbs GTW and 8,000 lbs tongue weight. Absorbs the bumps, bangs, jerks, chucking and bucking normally experienced when gooseneck towing and filters the road shock through the heavy duty air ride system. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Plus you can fine tune your towing with adding or reducing air pressure for best ride and load control. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® in Jamestown, ND.
Fits Horizon gooseneck trailers with either a 4.5″ Square, 4″ round stem, or 100mm (3-15/16″) round stem. The replacement inner tube stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from the factory location or you can also order it with a 9″ offset coupler for short-bed pickup trucks.
Note: Horizon gooseneck trailers have stems that are 4.5″ square or 4″ round, or older (before 2023) models have a 100mm (3-15/16″) round stem. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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