Product Description
- Smoother, Safer Towing: Experience the benefits of air ride towing technology with a built-in air spring that cushions your ride and absorbs road shock. This air ride system is positioned under the receiver tube, allowing you to adjust the air pressure for optimal ride quality and load control.
- Built in Air Ride System: Helps eliminate tugs, thumps, jerks & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways. Built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. No more jarring every time you cross a section divider. Absorbs road shock, creates a smooth ride & naturally reduces the tendency to trailer sway. Dual urethane bump cushions also offer additional HD performance.
- Sway Tab Design: The raised ball mount includes welded sway control tabs for attaching sway control arm bars and mini balls, such as the Shocker 1001 Friction Bar Sway Control Kit (sold separately). It is recommended to use one kit for towing under 10,000 lbs. and two kits for towing over that weight, making it ideal for campers experiencing sway issues.
- 8 Adjustment Holes & Raised Ball Mount: This raised mount features sway bar tabs with an adjustable range of 2 inches rise to 2 inches drop. You can select between a 2-inch or 2-5/16-inch hitch ball.
- 14,000 lbs GTW Capacity: With a towing capacity of 14,000 lbs and a tongue weight of 1,400 lbs, this hitch is built to handle heavy loads.
- Adjustable for Weight: Easily fine-tune your setup for towing by adding air for heavier loads.
- Adds Life To Your Vehicle: 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.
- Saves Fuel: By reducing the jerks, tugs and sways, customers report getting 1 or more miles per gallon improvement.
- Saves Money: By reducing trailer breakage on both the trailer and the trailer contents! The Shocker hitch absorbs the damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection. This greatly reduces the chances of breaking welds and doing other long term damage to your equipment as well as the valuable cargo you have inside the truck and trailer.
- Simple Pivot Design: uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a down and back motion, much different than other air hitches on the market. Our design eliminates the need for slides, parallel linkages, rollers, shock absorbers, or multiple air ride systems common to other air hitches.
- Raised Sway Air Ride Hitch Kit Includes: Complete with Shocker max black air ride hitch with built-in air ride system, adjustable raised ball mount (2″ or 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball) with sway bar mount tabs, and 3 d-handle ball mount attachment pins with clips. 2 for the raised mount and 1 for the receiver hitch.
- Note: The raised hitch sway control tab mount is designed to work with the Shocker 1001 sway arm bar kit or similar, which is not included and is available separately. Suggested to get 1 kit if towing under 10,000 lbs and 2 kits if towing over 10,000 lbs.
- Textured Matte Black Finish: The base frame boasts an impact-resistant premium powder-coat finish, ensuring durability and a sleek look.
- 2-Hole Receiver Shank: Compatible with 2″ & 2-1/2″ receiver hitch tubes, this hitch features two pin holes for length adjustability.
- Choose Your Receiver Size: Available for standard 2″& 2-1/2″ receiver hitches to meet your towing needs.
- Great for Pickups: Fits Great for Full Size Pickup Trucks & Vans, Midsize Pickups & Select SUVS (with a receiver under the bumper). Popular installs include GMC Sierra, Chevy Silverado, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Dodge Ram, Ford Ranger, Maverick F150, F250, F350, F450, F550 Superduty, Toyota Tundra, Tacoma, Nissan Titan, Frontier, Honda Ridgeline & Hyundai Santa Cruz.
- 20+ Ball Mount Options: Huge selection of ball mount attachments available from combo ball, drop, raised, drawbar, clevis pin, clevis, sway bar tab options, pintle hook, pintle & ball attachments and more. Combo adjustable multi-ball mount has 2″ & 2 5/16″ hitch ball.
- Safety Notice: Towing capacity limited by lowest rated component. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND. 2″ Ball is 10,000 lbs GTW & 1,000 lbs TW / 2-5/16″ Ball is 20,000 lbs GTW & 2,000 lbs TW.
- NOTE: This product will NOT work with a weight-distribution hitch system, if you have a w-d hitch, check out our Shocker Air Equalizer for WD Hitches.
- What Size Receiver Hitch Do I Need? Not sure if you have a 2″, 2-1/2″ or 3″ receiver tube? Measure inside to inside. Check out our guide on How to measure receiver your hitch tube size.
- How Much Drop or Rise Do I Need? Check out our guide to find out how much drop or rise you need.
- NOTE: This product will not work with a weight-distribution hitch system, if you have a w-d hitch, check out our Shocker Hitch Air Equalizer.
The Shocker Max Black Air Ride Receiver Hitch features a sway control raised ball mount with 8 adjustment holes, allowing for a rise of up to 2 inches or a drop of 2 inches. This raised hitch option is specifically designed for towing campers or other trailers with higher trailer tongues or for use with 2wd or trucks that are lower than the trailer tongue. Great for towing campers and more. The built in air ride system with dual bump cushions for maximum performance. This air hitch filters the bumps, bangs, jerks & tugs normally experienced with a hard connection through the build in air ride system creating a safer, smoother ride. Plus its easier on you and whatever you are towing. The sway bar tab design of this raised ball mount offer additional sway control protection when added with friction sway arm bars such as the Shocker SH-1001 sway bar kit, which is sold separately. To minimize unwanted sway, it includes welded sway bar tabs compatible with the Shocker 1001 friction sway control kit or similar systems.
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