Product Description
- Safer Smoother Towing with Built in Air Ride for an Appalachian Gooseneck Trailer: Improves your ride, easier on you, your equipment, plus reduces wear & tear on pickup & Appalachian trailer. 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.
- Reduces Stress, Wear, Tear & Breakage on Truck, Trailer & 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.
- Provides Comfort & Improves 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs Tow & 6,000 to 8,000 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 & 7,000 lbs TW. 3″ ball shift lock coupler has 40,000 lbs GTW & 8,000 lbs TW.
- 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.
- 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. Extender coupler option is great for extra cab clearance. 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.
- Gooseneck Air Hitch System Includes: Complete Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch with built-in air ride system & dual bump cushions, replacement inner tube stem Shift Lock or Demco gooseneck coupler. Choose for 2-5/16″ ball, 3″ ball or kingpin option. Kingpin option also available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Stem Options: Available for Appalachian gooseneck trailers with 4″ round or 4″ square tube stems. For the round option, you can order the new patent-pending round multi-fit stem that fits both 4″ & 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems with straight or angled pin holes.
- Saves Fuel: Customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
- Optional 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 are SH-9100. 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.
The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate upgrade for your Appalachian gooseneck trailer. The built in air ride system with dual bump cushions can handle the rough roads and give you a smooth ride. Get better handling and less breakage with our heavy-duty cushioning design. The air ride upgrade allows you to fine tune your air pressure for the best ride and load control. Let air out when you are running empty and add more as the heavier you are towing. Featuring the all new patented Shift Lock® gooseneck coupler for either a 2-5/16″ or 3″ hitch ball, or you can get it with an eZ latch Demco gooseneck coupler. This fast bolt-on air ride solution for your gooseneck trailer is easy to install. It fits the Appalachian gooseneck flatbed, car hauler, dump, tilt, and equipment trailers with a 100mm round stem. 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. The shock absorbing hitch & coupler for a Appalachian gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing on your pickup, trailer and contents. Works great on gooseneck style trailers made by Appalachian. Get comfort and control, plus way easier and less stress on you, your pickup, goose trailer & cargo. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes.
Note: Appalachian gooseneck trailers may have round or square gooseneck stems. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer. 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 gooseneck coupler, which is great for extra cab clearance.
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