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.
- Absorbs Road Shock: Helps eliminate tugs, jerks, bangs, chucking & bumps felt when towing on rough roads or concrete highways.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 & demco couplers. 7,000 lbs TW goose air hitch with shift lock or kingpin). Up to 40,000 lbs GTW & 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.
- Thick Wall Heavy Duty Custom Fit Square Stem: Available for 3-15/16″ Square & 4.5″ Square stems with straight pin holes for United gooseneck trailers.
- 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.
- Provides Comfort: The smoother towing is easier on you, your passengers, cargo and trailer. The patented design filters the natural tugs between trailer and pickup giving you more control and comfort towing a gooseneck trailer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
This air ride Shocker Gooseneck Surge® air hitch & coupler is the ultimate in smooth towing for a United gooseneck super hauler & race trailer. Works great on United super hauler and race trailers with gooseneck. Featuring the patented Shift Lock® gooseneck air coupler for either a 2-5/16″ or 3″ gooseneck hitch ball. Demco ez latch gooseneck coupler also available. This shocker absorbing gooseneck cushion hitch & coupler installs in minutes. 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, tug and road shock you feel when towing gooseneck trailers. Built in air ride system cushions the towing and can quickly be adjusted for loaded and empty trailers. The air ride system helps extend the life of your trailer and frame, by cushioning it, which also reduces damage and breakage. It’s also easier on you, your tow rig, goose trailer, cargo and race car. Up to 40,000 lbs GTW. Whether you are an occasionally tow with a gooseneck or doing major racing and hauling around the country, this shock absorbing cushioning hitch for a United gooseneck trailer, directs the bumps, tugs, and jerks through the built in air ride system, creating a smooth and safe towing experience for you, your pickup, trailer and its’ contents. Completely replaces your gooseneck factory gooseneck stem & coupler with the Gooseneck Surge Air system & coupler. Installs in minutes. Made by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND.
Note: United gooseneck trailers have either a 100mm (3-15/16″) square or a 4.5″ square stem. The Shocker gooseneck surge air hitch completely replaces your factory stem and coupler in minutes. Replacement stem has 3 height adjustment holes and the coupler extends 3″ forward from factory location or you can also order it with a 9″ forward extension air coupler for short bed pickup trucks.
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Must have for any gooseneck trailer!! Rides 75% smoother.
Made a big difference! Bridge embutments saw lines were way better not as much jarring !