Easy-to-adjust air bag lets you customize this coupler to get the smoothest possible ride. Air bag and bumpers absorb shock and reduce chucking. Secure latch makes connecting and disconnecting easy. Square tube is 4-1/2" wide.
Features:
Specs:
Note: If you have a recessed gooseneck ball, there must be at least a 12" x 12" opening in your bed for this coupler to work. In addition, the top of the hitch ball cannot be more than 2" from the top of the bed.
Have you ever hit a bump while towing and felt that road shock jostle and shake you all the way down to your bones? It's a common feeling. Most gooseneck couplers are made almost completely of metal, so there's nothing to help soften the road shock whenever you hit a bump. This results in a bumpy, jerky ride that not only takes a toll on you as you drive, but it creates an uncomfortable and stressful experience for your horses when you've got a livestock trailer hooked up. And it also beats up your equipment, leading to premature wear and tear for both your truck and gooseneck trailer.
Fortunately, the Shocker Hitch Air gooseneck coupler will change all that.
Using a built-in air bag and rubber cushions, the Shocker Hitch Air gooseneck coupler acts like an air suspension between your truck and gooseneck trailer. The air bag and bumpers help absorb road shock, creating a smoother, more comfortable ride while also protecting your truck and trailer from wear and tear on the brakes, chassis, trailer frame, and suspensions.
The body of the Shocker Hitch Air gooseneck coupler is designed to pivot back and forth, as the air bag and the cushioned bumpers take turns absorbing the road shock. When you hit a bump and your trailer bounces or you brake suddenly and your trailer jolts forward, the unit pivots so that the air bag and 2 cushioned bumper stops can isolate and absorb the energy.
Using the easily accessible air valve on the top of the unit, you can adjust the air pressure in the air bag to best accommodate what you're hauling. If you're towing a full trailer, for example, 15-20 psi should get the job done. If, however, you're hauling industrial equipment, you might need to air it up to 25-35 psi to accommodate the heavy load. Once the equipment is unloaded, simply release some air so that your unloaded trailer won't experience a stiff ride.
If you happen to get stuck in a situation where you're unable to inflate the bag, there's no need to worry; you can still tow your trailer. Without the inflated air bag, you won't get the full benefit from the Shocker Hitch Air, but you'll still get some built-in cushion with the bumper stops.
Hooking up your trailer is fast and easy thanks to the Shift Lock mechanism. Once you slide your gooseneck ball into the coupler socket, simply pull the lever down to engage the locking bars, securing the ball in place. Most couplers have a single pin that slides under one side of the ball, but the Shocker Hitch has thick, locking bars that cover both sides of the ball, providing added security and reducing rattle. Once the bars have captured your hitch ball, insert the included pin and clip through the lever to secure.
To unhook, remove the pin and clip and lift the lever to disengage the locking bars. You can even attach a pulley to the hole at the top of the lever, so you can easily release the lever from outside the bed of your truck.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer, and today I'm with Hunter from Shocker Hitch and he has brought along some of their products so we can kind of take a closer look at them and that's kind of the pros of etrailer. We get to get training and share that with you guys so you can make the best decision with your purchasing. Now, today we have our Shocker Hitch gooseneck search. So we've seen the ball mounts with the cushioned airbag in them and we've definitely seen great results with them, but also you can get this for your gooseneck. Taking a look at these, obviously we have the airbags still in place. This is a pretty cool design, but when it comes to having these bags, that really allows the people to fine tune adjust exactly what they want for their ride quality, correct Correct, yep.
So with the airbag technology, with the goosenecks, we're able to let that customer get the 100% ride they are looking for with their trailer. They can adjust it to whatever they feel is best for them. You know, you might have a guy that likes their gooseneck to ride a little softer, so he might have less air in his bag to where a guy might like a little stiffer, so he has more air in there, but in a sense, they're still getting the cushioning effect with the preferred ride that they want. Towing a gooseneck trailer, a lot of times it's a pretty rough ride. All that metal and weight is transferred through every bump and shock and so to add a point of suspension to soften that blow, what does that do for the person towing So for the person towing, I mean, realistic, it's gonna make a smoother ride for yourself in the front seat.
You know, when you're, when you got those over-the-road guys that are driving eight to 10 hours a day, that's a long time on the road and that's a lot of beating and banging. So in a sense it's going to make your ride in the truck more pleasurable that way. With that, too, when you're able to disperse that energy through this airbag instead of through the frames of the equipment, we're able to add longevity that way, as well. When you're taking that hard mount out of it and that energy is able to go through the airbag, you are now saving on the welds and the truck, the trailer, you're even helping the equipment and the cargo that is on the trailer ride a little smoother, too. Now as far as latching up, this is a nice little design here.
Can you show me how that attaches to the goose ball Yeah, so this is our patented shifter lock coupler. This has got the 2 5/16 ball on there. We also have our 40K, which has a three inch ball option with that. Super simple, essentially back like this is unlocked, then you just push it forward to lock it. So it's smooth, simple process, really easy to use, pretty, pretty foolproof.
The way that these are set up, we have the bag here versus this one that's kind of in a cantilever vertical situation. Why is that So essentially what we run into with some of the bigger horse trailers, enclosed race trailers, over the transport enclosed trailers is they've got big fronts on 'em. So what we had to do then is with some of the short-bed pickups out there, turning radius becomes an issue. So why we had to do that is we then created a nine inch offset to help those guys out with that. Unfortunately, we got into, had to do a redesign on how the hitch works. I mean they still function in the exact same way, just some different motions to it, to where we had to relocate the bag to the front. So it works better with the nine inch offset. So if someone was gonna pick one of these up for their gooseneck, how would they go about making sure they get the proper one So the first two things to look at, step one would be to drop your existing stem out of your trailer to measure the diameter of the tube. So pretty much right on the top, take a tape measure and measure the diameter on the top. So your two most common are gonna be the 3 15/16 or a four inch. Step two would then be to look at your pin. So go out to your trailer and look at both sides, to where on a majority of them, on the driver's side of the trailer, the pin head on an angle will be farther back and on the passenger side the pin will be farther ahead, to where if it's a straight pin, it's the same spot on both sides. Makes sense. So awesome insight for an awesome product. Hopefully this helps you decide if this is right for you and also making sure you get the proper one. So big thanks to Hunter for taking the time to show us this. Oh, not a problem. Thanks, you guys, for having me and really enjoy doing these with you guys. Thank you.
Info for this part was:
At etrailer.com we provide the best information available about the products we sell. We take the quality of our information seriously so that you can get the right part the first time. Let us know if anything is missing or if you have any questions.
Thank you! Your comment has been submitted successfully. You should be able to view your question/comment here within a few days.
Error submitting comment. Please try again momentarily.