Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for Trails West Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Trails West gooseneck livestock, living quarter, stock, recreational & horse trailers. 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 spring bag is simply the best cushion device on the planet. This hitch directs the tow resistance through the air ride system, producing a smooth ride. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
- Provides Comfort & Improve Control Towing with a Gooseneck: The smoother towing you get makes it easier on you, your passengers, animals, cargo & trailer. The patented design filters the natural tugs between trailer and pickup, giving you more control &comfort towing a gooseneck trailer. By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle & trailer, it is safer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup & the trailer it is towing.
- Adjustable for Tow Weight – Easily Adjust for Best Ride & Load Control: 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.
- Reduces Stress, Wear, Tear & Breakage on Truck, Trailer, Animals & Cargo: Air ride reduces wear & tear on the driveline and frame. Less stress & breakage on welded. Treat yourself, passengers, animals, & equipment to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action Makes It Easier on You & Equipment: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps & damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highways with a typical hard connection. Helps eliminate jerks, bucking, bangs & chucking felt when towing. 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.
- Quick & Easy Installation on Your Gooseneck Trailer In Minutes: Completely replaces your factory gooseneck stem & coupler with Gooseneck Surge Air System & Coupler. Air Ride Installs in Minutes on Gooseneck Trailer.
- 30,000 lbs GTW & 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Available with dual latching Shift Lock gooseneck coupler. All 9″ offset coupler & demco coupler options have 6,000 lbs TW. 2-5/16″ ball shift lock coupler has 30,000 lbs GTW.
- Provides Comfort & Control with Simple Pivot Design: With a smoother ride. Your Shocker air hitch absorbs the thumps, bumps, and jerks you feel when towing your gooseneck trailer. The Gooseneck surge air hitch system allows for better control of your pickup & trailer. 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.
- Choose Dual Latching Shift Lock® or Demco Coupler: Patented gooseneck coupler. Shift lock 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 from the ball. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628. Demco EZ Latch coupler automatically latches on to ball, flip handle up to unhook.
- Available for 2-5/16″ 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. Extender coupler option is great for extra cab clearance.). 2-5/16″ coupler is rated at 30,000 lbs GTW.
- 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.
- 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.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Stem Options: Available for 4″ round or 100 mm (3-15/16″) Round Gooseneck Stems with angled pin hole (pin Not straight) on Trails West Gooseneck Trailers, or choose the new patent pending round multi-fit stem.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving 1 mile or more per gallon.
- Optional Shift Lock Gooseneck Locks: Shift lock box style coupler & set bolt lock kit is part # SH-GK30P-400GL-BLK. Box style coupler lock is SH-GK340P-BLK. Pad lock style shift lock coupler lock is: SH-9000-Lock and the Demco box lock & set bolt lock is part #SH-GDSP-400GL-BLK. Demco pad lock style options is DEM-17654-81 . Set bolt lock, part # SH-400GL-ISP-BLK available and sold separately.
- Order by Trailer Manufacture: Find your Gooseneck Hitch by Trailer Brand.
- Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? See our gooseneck stem selection guide.
- Safety Note: Towing capacity is limited by lowest rated component.
Add a gooseneck air ride upgrade to your Trails West gooseneck trailer in minutes. Get smoother towing that is easier on you, your cargo and trailer. Built in air ride and dual bump cushions filter the bucking and chucking, giving you more control and comfort when towing a gooseneck trailer. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for Trails West gooseneck livestock, living quarter, stock, recreational & horse trailers. The shock dampening Gooseneck 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 a gooseneck trailer. This is easier on you and your horses. It directs the road shock and bumps through the built in airbag, cushioning the ride with the shock absorbing design. Whether you occasionally tow with a gooseneck or are all over the country, this shock absorbing hitch for a TrailsWest gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Featuring a 30,000 lb patented dual latching shift lock gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ hitch ball. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Note: Fits Trails West gooseneck trailers with a round stem that is 100mm (3-15/16″) and 4″ round. It offers 3 height adjustment holes that are angled/slotted for the pin. It’s also available with the round multi-fit gooseneck stem, which will replace and fit both styles. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer in minutes. Replacement stem has 3 adjustment holes, and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location or you can also order it with a 9″ extension gooseneck coupler, which is great for extra cab clearance or if you are towing a gooseneck trailer with a short bed pickup truck. Not sure what size round gooseneck stem you have? Check out our gooseneck stem selection guide.
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Amazing, unbelievable difference, providing comfort for the driver and horses in the trailer, can not say enough about this product