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 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 or the auto latching demco coupler for 2-5/16″ ball. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on all 9″ offset stems & demco couplers and 7,000 lbs TW standard goose air hitch with shift lock). 30,000 lbs GTW for round stems and up to 40,000 lbs GTW with 8,000 lbs tw 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Custom Fit Thick Wall Heavy Duty Stem Options: Diamond C gooseneck trailers have 100mm (3-15/16″) round stems & 4″ round stem with angled pin holes (pin Not straight) as well has 4″ square with straight pin holes and square stems with top crank. 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 for a 2-5/16″ or 3″ ball. 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-Lockand the Demco options 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.
Air ride upgrade for your Diamond C gooseneck trailer. The revolutionary Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in gooseneck trailer towing for your Diamond C gooseneck trailer. Available with 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs GTW. This shock-absorbing cushion hitch is the only air ride hitch to exclusively work in a forward and back motion, which is oftentimes this is the biggest jerk you feel when towing a gooseneck trailer. Make gooseneck towing easier on you, your equipment, and cargo. Reduces breakage and gives you a way smoother ride. Works great on Diamond C dump, flatbed, tilt & deck over gooseneck trailers. The built-in air ride system absorbs the road shock and filters the bumps, bugs, jerks, chuck and tugs through the air ride system creating a smoother, safer towing experience for you, your pickup, your trailer & the contents. Featuring the patented Shift Lock® coupler for a 2-5/16″ or 3″ hitch ball or a Demco auto latching coupler for 2-5/16″ ball. Completely replaces the factory 4″ round, 4″ square, 4.5″ square stem & coupler on a Diamond C gooseneck trailers. The shock-absorbing hitch for a Diamond C flatbed or dump gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing, whether you are towing occasionally or a hotshot truck driver hauling cargo all over the country. Works great on Diamond C gooseneck-style end dumps & flatbed trailers. Fine-tune for your weight, heavier loads just add air. Even saves fuel, as customers report 1 mile or more per gallon improvements. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA
Note: Diamond C gooseneck trailers have 4″round stems with angled/slotted hole for the pin, and a 4″ or 4.5″ square tube stem with a top crank. Some 2021 Diamond C trailers have 100mm stems with angled holes. We also have the new patent pending multi-fit stem options. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch attaches easily to your trailer in minutes. Replacement inner tube stem has 3 adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from the 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. If even saves fuel, customers using the gooseneck air hitch report saving one mile or more per gallon.
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I was unsure about how well this hitch would work for our gooseneck, I am so grateful that we decided to buy and highly recommend this to anyone and everyone! It smoothed out the ride and made towing a good experience. The customer service on the phone is exceptional and shipping was quick. This organization and product is beyond my expectation.
Fantastic! This has clearly helped with the overall ride quality while pulling our trailer!!!
Workmanship is A Plus. Great Service