Product Description
- Smoother, Safer Towing: Experience enhanced towing with air ride technology featuring a heavy-duty built-in air ride system that cushions your ride and absorbs road shocks. Positioned under the receiver tube, you can easily adjust the air pressure for optimal ride quality and load control.
- Built-In Air Ride System: This system effectively absorbs road shocks, bumps, bangs, jerks, and tugs during towing, providing a smooth ride while naturally reducing the tendency for trailer sway. Dual rubber bump cushions further enhance performance on the road.
- Drop Mount with Sway Mounting Tab Design: The drop ball mount includes welded sway control tabs for attaching basic friction sway control arm bars and mini balls, such as the Shocker Friction Bar Sway Control Kit (sold separately). It is recommended to use one kit for towing under 10,000 lbs and two kits for loads over that weight.
- 8 Adjustment Holes & Drop Ball Mount: This drop mount offers an adjustable range of 4-1/2″ to 8-1/2″ of drop and is compatible with either a 2″ or 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball.
- 14,000 lbs GTW Capacity: With a towing capacity of 14,000 lbs and a tongue weight rating of 1,400 lbs, this hitch is designed for heavy-duty use.
- Adjustable for Weight: Easily fine-tune your setup for towing by adding air for heavier loads, ensuring optimal performance.
- 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 & doing other long term damage to your equipment as well as the valuable cargo you have inside the truck & trailer.
- 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. No more continual bumps, jerks, and vibrations.
- 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 spring bag common to other air hitches.
- Shock Dampening Action: Effectively absorbs the jerking, tugging and damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection when towing trailers. There is no reason to beat yourself or your equipment up with a hard connection between your trailer & your receiver hitch.
- Air Ride Drop Hitch Kit Includes: Shocker Max Black Hitch with 14K air ride hitch, adjustable drop ball mount with 2″ or 2-5/16″ chrome hitch ball with sway bar mount tabs & three 5/8″ diameter d-handle ball mount attachment pins with clips. 2 for the drop mount & 1 for the receiver hitch.
- Textured Matte Black Finish: The base frame features an impact-resistant Max Black™ premium powder-coat finish, ensuring durability and a sleek look.
- Note: The drop hitch sway control tab mount is designed to work with the Shocker Friction Sway Bars or similar, which are not included and are available separately. Suggested to get 1 kit if towing under 10,000 lbs and 2 kits if towing over 10,000 lbs.
- 2-Hole Receiver Shank: Available with 2″ & 2-1/2″ receiver hitch tubes, this hitch features two pin holes for convenient length adjustability.
- 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 Options: Huge selection of ball mount attachments available. Combo, Drop, Raised, Sway Bar Tab Options, Pintle, Pintle with Ball, Drawbar, Clevis Pin & More. Combo adjustable multi-ball mount has with 2″ hitch ball & 2 5/16″ hitch ball.
- Safety Notice: Towing capacity is limited by the 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 Ride Weight Distribution 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 14K Max Black Sway Control Air Drop Hitch features an adjustable drop ball mount with welded sway control bar mounting tabs, making it ideal for air ride trailer towing and enhancing sway control with friction sway control bars. If you have a taller-than-stock pickup and are experiencing trailer sway issues, this hitch is the perfect solution.
Constructed with an impact-resistant matte black powder-coated frame, this hitch ensures a durable and attractive look for years to come. Most importantly, the air hitch provides instant air ride towing for your pickup and trailer, effectively absorbing bumps, jerks, tugs, sways and road shocks while you tow. It boasts a heavy-duty towing capacity of 14,000 lbs and a tongue weight rating of 1,400 lbs. If trailer sway is a problem. Here is the solution. It’s easier on you, your passengers, animals, pickup, trailer & cargo. Reduces damage, controls sway and makes towing a trailer easier.
The built-in air ride system cushions both the hitch and the towed trailer, significantly reducing road shocks. With dual bump cushions, it delivers additional performance on the road, while the pivoting design allows for a much smoother and safer towing experience compared to a solid ball mount.
The drop ball mount features sway bar tabs welded on both sides, accommodating basic friction sway control arm bars with mini hitch balls. This heavy-duty hitch acts as a mini air suspension unit, and the adjustable drop ball mount is available with either a 2″ or 2-5/16″ hitch ball, offering a drop range of 4-1/2″ to 8-1/2″.
The max black Shocker 14K air receiver hitch is especially beneficial for taller pickups equipped with leveling or lift kits, or when towing campers with higher tongues. It mounts easily by sliding into a standard receiver tube, making this shock-absorbing hitch a must-have for smoother trailer towing. Manufactured by Shocker Hitch® USA in Jamestown, ND, it’s available for 2″ & 2-1/2″ receiver sizes.
The air ride system is positioned under the receiver tube, creating a compact 10-inch distance between the mounting pin and the ball center. One of the key advantages of the Air Shocker is the ability to adjust air pressure for optimal ride quality and load control, making it perfect for pickups that are taller than stock.
Note: The sway control tab mount is designed to work with the Shocker Friction Sway bar kit or similar friction sway control kit, 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.
This works on pickups, vans, motorhomes, RVs, and SUVs that have the receiver tube below the bumper. If you have a CUV, check out our Shocker Cushion Ball Mounts
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