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.
- 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.
- 30,000 lbs Tow & up to 7,000 lbs tongue weight: Patented dual latching Shift Lock™ coupler for 2-5/16″. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on 9″ offset and 7,000 lbs TW standard air hitch).
- 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 for short bed pickups).
- 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 onto ball, flip handle up to unhook.
- 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 offers heavy duty, yet very smooth performance.
- Shock Dampening & Absorbing Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging, bumps and damaging forces experienced when towing on rough roads & concrete highways with a typical hard connection.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: 4 Star Horse Trailers have 4 round stems with angled pin holes. 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™ or Demco gooseneck coupler. Choose from a 2-5/16″ or Kingpin option, also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- 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 & tear on driveline & frame. Treat yourself, your equipment & your passengers to a much smoother ride. You’ll never go back to the days of continual bumps, jerks & vibrations.
- 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.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one 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 option is DEM-17654-81 . Handle style coupler lock is SH-651P, and set bolt lock, part # SH-400GL-ISP-BLK available and sold separately.
- Order by Trailer Manufacture: Find your Gooseneck Surge Air 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 air to your 4 Star horse trailer with a Gooseneck Surge® air hitch. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch is the ultimate in gooseneck horse trailer towing for your 4 Star gooseneck horse trailer. The built-in air ride system directs the road shock, bugs, jerks, tugs, and bangs into the air ride system, cushioning the truck, trailer, and overall ride, creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. Easier and better towing for you and your horses. Featuring the patented Shift Lock™ 30,000 lb gooseneck air coupler for a 2-5/16″ or hitch ball and fits the 4 Star gooseneck horse trailers. The proven surge technology ensures the hitch works great if you are loaded or unloaded. The Gooseneck Surge air hitch is the only air ride hitch to work exclusively in forward and back motion, which is often the biggest jerk you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. The shock absorbing hitch for a gooseneck horse trailer is made for smooth and safe towing on your pickup, trailer, and horses. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch®
Note: 4 Star gooseneck trailers have round stems that are 4″ with angled pin holes. We also have the new patent pending multi-fit stem options. The Gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to those stems. Replacement stem has 3 adjustment holes, and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location, or you can also order it 9″ forward for short-bed pickup trucks.
Adds life to your pickup & gooseneck trailer 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. It even saves fuel; customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
California Residents: Prop 65 Warning
I have been towing trailers of all sorts for many years. I wish I would have bought a shocker hitch a long time ago. Night and day difference. Awesome system!!!
Great product so far getting ready to take on long run