Shocker HD Max Black Air Hitch & Chrome Combo Ball Mount & Sway Bar Tabs
Rated for your tow
20,000 lbs GTW · 2,000 lbs TW · 2" receiver· 20,000 lbs GTW · 2,000 lbs TW · 2" receiver
$1,310.38
$1,377.58 save $67.20
or as low as $110/mo with flexible financing — 4, 6, or 12 months. Options at checkout.
Heavy Duty Design
Perfect for heavy duty trailer towing with a bumper hitch. 3/8" thick steel side plates & top plate, heavy duty air spring & dual bump cushions.
Adjustable for Weight
Fine-tune for your towing weight. Add or reduce air depending on the weight of your trailer and contents for best ride and load control. Just add air for heavier loads.
Matte Black Finish on Frame
Max Black™ Textured Impact Resistant Matte Black Premium Powder-Coat Finish Hitch & Receiver Shank.
Provide Comfort
With a smoother ride! Travel a lot on concrete highways? No more jarring every time you cross a section divider. Your Shocker air hitch absorbs the thumps and bumps.
Stop destroying your trailer and cargo.
Every bump, pothole, and expansion joint sends a violent jolt through your trailer frame, damaging cargo and wearing out your truck. Shocker Air Ride Hitches absorb that punishment at the coupling, before it reaches your trailer.
You feel every frost heave and hard stop straight through a rigid steel hitch. It jolts the truck, chucks the trailer, and beats up whatever you've loaded, and the heavier you haul the worse that pounding gets. The Shocker HD Max Black Air Hitch & Chrome Combo Ball Mount & Sway Bar Tabs drops an air spring between truck and trailer so that shock gets soaked up instead of passed down the line. It's the top of Shocker's bumper-pull lineup: heavy-duty 20K capacity in a textured matte-black premium powder coat. It fits F-150-class half-ton trucks (and class III/IV receivers) with a 2-inch receiver, carries 20,000 lbs GTW and up to 2,000 lbs of tongue weight on a beefier-wall HD chassis, and hands one-ton owners who refuse to trade capacity for finish both in one hitch.
Key Highlights
- Hauls the heaviest bumper-pull trailer Shocker rates for, 20,000 lbs GTW with up to 2,000 lbs of tongue weight
- Textured matte-black powder coat shrugs off scratches and matches a blacked-out truck
- 20K-rated HD airbag, built multi-ply to soak up road shock under a full load
- Beefier-wall HD chassis with reinforced welds right where the stress piles up
- Fits a 2-inch receiver, with a 3-inch option available for one-ton trucks
- Add or release air to set ride height for whatever you're towing that day
- 1/2" to 4-1/2" drop ball-mount geometry so you can sit the trailer level
- Backed by our 60-day satisfaction guarantee
What's Included
- HD Max Black 20K base frame (2-inch receiver shank, matte black)
- 20K-rated HD air spring and dual rubber bump cushions (pre-installed)
- Schrader air valve with cap
- (3) D-handle ball-mount attachment pins with clips
- Selected ball-mount attachment if applicable to this SKU (matching black where offered)
- HD installation and air-pressure setup instructions
Not Included
- —Air compressor or pressure gauge (sold separately, recommended for HD use)
- —Friction sway-bar kit (sold separately)
- —Add-on ball-mount attachments beyond the one shipped with this SKU
Installation
Watch the official install walkthrough for this hitch — the exact steps and tools, straight from the manufacturer.
How Shocker HD Air Ride Works
20K-Rated Air Spring
An HD multi-ply rubber air bag carries up to 20,000 lbs of trailer and still soaks up the road shock that would otherwise hammer your truck and cargo. It's the same engineering as the HD Red, finished to match the matte-black chassis.
Adjustable for Heavy Loads
A heavy trailer can swing 1,000+ lbs between empty and full. Air up for the max-weight run, bleed it down for the deadhead home. The HD airbag gives you a wider usable pressure range than the 14K, so you can dial it in either way.
Reinforced HD Chassis
It keeps the same 8-hole external geometry, so every Shocker ball mount still fits, and adds thicker-wall steel with reinforced welds rated for 20K loads, all under a textured matte-black powder coat.
Rocker-Arm Pivot
Shocker's down-and-back motion runs on a single pivot, with no slides, rollers, or stacked airbags to wear out, even at HD loads. Fewer moving parts under that kind of stress means it lasts longer.
Why Buyers Choose HD Max Black
The top-tier core line, heavy-duty and premium-finish in one.
- Maxes out bumper-pull capacity at 20,000 lbs GTW
- Textured matte black hides scratches better than glossy or red does
- Matches blacked-out OEM packages on Ford, RAM, Chevy, and GMC one-tons
- Optional 3-inch receiver matches dual-rear-wheel factory hitches
- Takes the same 20+ Shocker ball-mount attachments, black-matched where offered
- Gives you capacity and looks without making you pick one
HD Max Black vs. Max Black 14K: What's Different
Same finish family, different capacity tier:
Heavier Airbag and Walls
A 20K-rated HD airbag and reinforced steel walls step you up past what the 14K handles to a full 20,000 lbs GTW with 2,000 lbs of tongue weight. This is the one to reach for when your loads climb past 14k.
Three-Inch Receiver Option
HD Max Black comes in a 3-inch receiver for dual-rear-wheel one-ton trucks, something the Max Black 14K doesn't offer.
Flip the Ball Mount for Drop or Rise
This Shocker HD Max Black Air Hitch & Chrome Combo Ball Mount & Sway Bar Tabs ships set up as a 1/2" to 4-1/2" Drop ball mount. Most Shocker ball mounts flip over, so you can turn that drop into a rise, and the 8 adjustment holes let you fine-tune coupler height. A heavy bumper-pull trailer is fussy about sitting level. Get the drop wrong and you overload either the front or rear axle of the trailer, so take a minute and dial it in.
Premium Finish, HD Frame
It's built on the same reinforced HD chassis as the Shocker HD 20K Red. The textured matte-black powder coat is made to fight UV fade, hide the micro-scratches you get sliding the shank in and out of the receiver, and outlast glossy finishes on salt-belt highways and gravel roads. Backed by Shocker Hitch's 60-day satisfaction guarantee.
$1,310.38
Still researching?
Skip the product wall — these are the four guides every buyer actually opens before they decide.
Installation Guide
Step-by-step videos for every Shocker family. What's in the box, what tools you need, and how long it takes.
Watch the installAir Pressure Setup
How to dial in air pressure by trailer weight so the ride is right the first time and the hitch lasts longer.
See psi by loadTowing Capacity Guide
Match GTW, tongue weight, and receiver size to your truck class so you don't over- or under-buy.
Read the guideConfigure Your Hitch
60-second fit quiz — answer a few questions about your truck and trailer, get a tailored recommendation.
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