Shocker Air Equalizer for WD Hitch Kit (Air Equalizer, XR Drop Hitch, Chrome Combo Ball & 2 Hitch Pins)

A weight-distribution hitch levels out a heavy travel trailer, but the spring bars pass every jolt straight through. You feel it as chucking: the trailer tugging the truck back and forth over concrete seams, frost heaves, and hard stops. This kit fixes that.

It adds an air bag to the WD setup that half-ton and 3/4-ton trucks already run behind travel trailers, so the load stays level and the road shock gets soaked up before it ever reaches the cab.

You get the Air Equalizer air bag, which bolts to the head of your existing or new WD hitch, paired with the Shocker XR Extended Range base that drops into your receiver. Rated at 12,000 lbs gross trailer weight with 1,200 lbs of tongue weight, and it fits most major WD brands. Pickup trucks only, not SUVs or CUVs with coil-over rear springs.

Air Equalizer Air Bag: The retrofit air bag that bolts to the head of your weight-distribution hitch, existing or new. It soaks up the chucking and road shock that WD spring bars pass straight through on their own.

Shocker XR Extended Range Hitch: The base that ties the Air Equalizer to your truck's receiver. 8 adjustment holes give you 7-8 inches of rise and drop, so you can line the trailer up dead level. Ships with the receiver shank size you pick.

WD Hitch Not Included: Bring your own weight-distribution hitch head, or buy one separately. The Air Equalizer is the air bag. The WD hitch is the spring-bar-and-head system that mounts on top of it.

Two Hitch Pins With Clips: Both D-handle pins for securing the receiver shank and the WD-equalizer interface ship in the kit, so there's nothing extra to source before your first tow.

The Air Equalizer head bolts to weight-distribution hitch heads with either a 2-1/2-inch or 3-3/4-inch center-on-center bolt pattern. If you already run one of these, it drops right in:

Fastway E2 (round bar and trunnion)

Equal-i-zer (the brand)

Reese (round bar and trunnion)

Husky and Pro Series

Torklift and Blue Ox round-bar systems

Camco Eaz Lift

Curt round-bar and Curt TruTrack/trunnion

Shocker XR-compatible WD hitches

NOT compatible with Andersen chain-style or B&W Continuum WD systems

The weight-distribution family is its own thing, separate from the bumper-pull air hitches:

Air Equalizer for WD (this product): For travel trailers that need weight distribution to level the truck. It pairs an air bag with a WD spring-bar system. This is the one to reach for when a heavy tongue weight is squatting your rear end.

XR Extended Range Hitch (standalone): The Shocker XR receiver-side air hitch sold without the Air Equalizer. Grab this when you don't need weight distribution and just want air ride on the receiver.

Original Shocker Air Hitch (steel): The standard 14K bumper-pull air hitch with no weight-distribution provision. Built for lighter trailers at a lower price.

Light Duty 12K Tongue Mount: Air ride that mounts on the trailer's A-frame instead of the truck. Handy when you pull the same trailer with more than one truck. It does not work with WD.

The Air Equalizer is built for pickups with leaf-spring or hybrid rear suspensions (F-150, F-250, F-350, Silverado, Sierra, Ram 1500/2500/3500, Tundra, Titan, Colorado, Canyon, Tacoma, Frontier, Ridgeline). It is NOT compatible with SUVs, CUVs, or vans with coil-over rear springs.

Those rear suspensions react to WD systems differently, and the Air Equalizer's geometry is tuned for how pickup leaf springs behave. If you tow with an SUV or CUV, look at the Shocker Cushion Ball Mount line instead.

The Air Equalizer leans on your WD spring bars doing their job. The bars distribute the load, the air bag does the dampening. Hook up the trailer and engage your WD bars first. Then air the hitch until the truck-side bump cushions are NOT compressed. If the trailer-side bump cushions start to compress, you have put in too much air.

Dial it in until both sets of cushions are free. Those 4 bump cushions and the air bag work together to absorb the chucking, tugs, and jerks that WD bars alone send straight into the cab. Owners report a much smoother ride on concrete highways and rough sealed roads.

Add bolt on air ride towing to your pickup & camper with a equalizer, weight-distribution hitch in minutes. (easily bolt your existing weight-distribution head to air equalizer).

Air equalizer absorbs the road shock & cushion the ride when towing a camper with a weight-distribution hitch

This is designed for pulling with a Pickup Truck - it will not work with SUV/CUV's with coil over springs in the rear.

Built in air ride system + 4 bump cushions direct the road shock through the airbag. Air Equalizer is designed with a built-in air ride system for a smoother towing experience. Featuring a built in height adjustment plus weight adjustable. Just add or ride air depending on the weight of your trailer and it's contents.

Fits & bolts to most major brands of weight-distribution hitch heads: Fastway E2, Equalizer, Reese, Husky, Pro Series, Torklift, Blue OX, Camco Eaz Lift & Curt round bar, Curt trutrack & trunnion head).

Measure your head, the air equalizer fits heads that have 2-1/2" center to center or 3-3/4" center to center bolt hole patterns. (Does not work with Anderson chain style weight-distribution hitch)

12,000 lbs towing & 1,200 lbs tongue weight capacity plus 7 or 9" of Adjustment (5" of rise to 2" drop or choose 5" rise to 4" drop). Fine tune for your towing weight. Just add air for heavier loads.

Uses a rocker arm pivot design which produces a front and back motion, much different than other cushion hitches on the market.

No more jarring every time you cross a section divider on a rough road or concrete highway. Absorbs the thumps and bumps.

Shocker air equalizer hitch 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 the trailer & receiver hitch.

By reducing trailer breakage on both the trailer and the trailer contents! Absorbs the damaging forces experienced with a typical hard connection. This greatly reduces the chances of breaking welds and doing other damage to your equipment & cargo.

By giving you improved control of your tow vehicle and camper. The air ride equalizer for a weight distribution system allows for better control of your pickup and the trailer it is towing.

By reducing wear and tear on driveline and frame! Treat yourself, your equipment, and your passengers to a much smoother ride.

Works great on GMC Sierra, Chevy Silverado, Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Dodge Ram, Ford F150, F250, F350, F450, F550 Super Duty, Toyota Tundra, Tacoma, Nissan Titan, Frontier and Honda Ridgeline pickup trucks.

Air Equalizer with built in airbag, XR Ball Mount Base frame and two "D" handled hitch pins w/clips. Upgrade to also includes a combo ball mount with 2" hitch ball & 2 5/16" hitch ball. Combo ball GTW rating is 20,000 lbs for 2-5/16" ball and 10,000 lbs for 2" ball.

How to set the air? After you hook up wd bars, air the hitch until the truck side bump cushions are not compressed. If the trailer side bump cushions are compressed you have too much air in the bag. See video

The Shocker Hitch is a heavy-duty unit that in most cases exceeds factory towing weight capacities, therefore it is imperative that you always read and follow the tongue and towing weight recommendations of the truck that is mounted on, the hitch & ball rating, the trailer coupler rating and the ratings of the trailer you are towing.

Stocked in Canada — ships direct, no customs delay. 2" Ball is 10,000 lbs GTW & 1,000 lbs TW / 2-5/16" Ball is 20,000 lbs GTW & 2,000 lbs TW.

We offer a wide variety of our ball mount attachments; standard mounts, drop ball mounts, clevis mounts, drawbar mounts, cushioned drawbar mounts, pintle hook attachments, raised mounts and combo multi-ball mounts that would with the XR ball mount base frame.