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.
- Reduces Damage & Stress: 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.
- 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.
- 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. (6,000 lbs tongue weight on all 9″ offset stems & all demco couplers. 7,000 lbs TW on shift lock coupler on standard air hitch). 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. 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.
- 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: Kaufman gooseneck trailers have 100mm (3-15/16″) square stems with straight pin holes. (If you have a different stem please let us know).
- 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 only available for low-profile 5th wheel plates like on flatbed trucks. Not for use with camper 5th wheel plate.
- 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.
The Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for Kaufman gooseneck trailers. Bolt on air ride in minutes for your gooseneck trailer. Works for Kaufman flatbed, tilt, equipment, car hauler & landscape trailers with gooseneck and cushions your towing. Absorbs the bumps, bangs, jerks, tugs, bucking and chucking normally experience with gooseneck trailer towing and filters them through the built in air ride system with dual bump cushions. This makes it easier on you, your animals, equipment and cargo. The shock absorbing design reduces the chance of breakage & stress on your frame. Available with either a ez latching demco gooseneck coupler for a 2-5/16″ ball or the dual latching patented Shift Lock® gooseneck coupler for 2-5/16″ or 3″ hitch ball. The only coupler that captures both sides of the ball and you can easily see if it is locked onto the ball. 30,000 lbs to 40,000 lbs GTW options. Available to fit the Kaufman gooseneck with square inner gooseneck stem. The shock absorbing hitch for a Kaufman gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Works great on gooseneck style end dumps, flatbed, car, equipment trailers and more. 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 Kaufman gooseneck trailer is made for smooth and safe towing. Completely replaces your factory stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. This coupler also extends 3″ forward from where you factory coupler was located. Patent #’s 11,370,257 B1 & D898,628.
Note: Fits Kaufman goosenecks that have a square inner tube stem with straight holes for the pin. 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 9″ forward extender coupler for when towing a gooseneck trailer with short bed pickup truck for extra cab clearance.
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Bought this hitch because it had good reviews. When I spoke with the company over the phone they were very professional and helping. I installed the hitch and hit the road. I 20 in SC is very poor and this hitch worked amazing. I highly recommend it.
Awesome customer service with Valerie. Part shipped and arrived as described. Using it now and love it, exactly what I needed and works great!! Without a doubt the best money I have spent on trailer and truck so far!! Excellent engineered product!!
Thank you Shocker Hitch! and again great customer service Valerie!~!!!!!
SSmith
Hands down the best $900-1k I’ve ever spent. This exceeded my expectations and then some. Thanks to the team @ Shocker. You guys have created an outstanding product. Since installing this hitch, I can feel how smooth my truck rides.
Thank You to all of the folks at Shocker Hitch!!
JWill