Video Transcript for Complete Breakdown of the Shocker Hitch HD Air Ball Mount

Hello everybody. This is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we'll take a look at this Shocker HD Air Receiver Hitch with the raised 2 and 5/16ths ball mount, for a two inch hitch receiver. Has a 20,000 pound gross towing weight capacity. Now this is a nice heavy duty shock absorbent hitch. It uses this airbag and these rubber bumpers to provide a nice, smooth and comfortable ride.

This will help extend the life of your truck and trailer by protecting them from unnecessary wear and tear. The enlarged airbag down here and the thick seal steel side plates on it are designed for heavy duty trailers and this will help permit shucking and jerking to give you better control of your tow vehicle and trailer. The plates on it, these steel plates are grade-50 steel plates. They use a cold, rolled, solid steel shank here to provide maximum durability. And these parts are shot-blasted and powder coated to prevent rust.

The airbag, it is an adjustable airbag. It'll let you easily adapt the ball mount to suit your trailer's load. You can fill it with air right here by this air valve, just remove the cap, put your air hose or air line on there, pump air in there and get it to the correct height you need. This will ensure enough shock absorption for your setup and not so much as to cause a stiff ride. Now on the front here you can see there's eight adjustment holes with five available drop positions that'll let you tow trailers of different heights.

The distance between those adjustment holes center to center is one inch. So basically this ball mount here, you could drop or raise it in the channel, to match your application. Right now we have it in the highest part which is the maximum rise position. So that's gonna get you a maximum of two-inch rise. If you drop this down to the lowest position, it'll get you a maximum drop of two inches.

And what's nice is you can take this ball mount out and Shocker has many different hitch accessories like a pintle hook, clevis pin, draw bar attachments, that we do sell separately. That'll fit in that channel and you can hook up to even many more trailers. Now the inside width on the channel itself is 3 3/4 inches. To adjust this ball mount, you have these nice two easy-to-move adjustment pins included. They have these nice large handles on the end, makes it very easy to grasp, so there's no more fumbling with any small hitch pin heads. So basically if you just pull your pins out. Let me turn this around and pull our pin out there. And pull that pin out. And then you can see you can slide these pins out and with both of them out, the ball mount will remove. And again, we mentioned because it has the eight different adjustment holes, when you do put it in there, you can put it to whatever height you need. So what I'm gonna do is just put it right back at the highest position, slide our pin all the way in. All the way through. And then there's another hole right at the bottom. You just slide that one through. Take your pins and your clips here. Just push those back on there to lock it into place. And just like that, you're all ready to go. Pretty easy to move it up or down. Now also I wanted to mention on the pivot point right here, basically this little seesaw and here's your pivot point. You'll notice on the end of it it has this grease-circ fitting, that allows you to connect a grease gun to it and you can lubricate that pivot point. Now the pitch ball is a zinc plated steel hitch ball. It is corrosion resistance. The ball size is 2 and 5/16ths diameter. Now when you do install this into your hitch receiver, you can see it has two hitch pin holes here. You can slide this in. Now the hitch pinning clip or the hitch lock is not included. We do sell those separately on our website. That is what'll secure this two year hitch receiver. They have two hitch pin holes, I mentioned, and there 5/8ths of an inch diameter. And it's two holes because it allow you a length adjustment for your application. This part is made in the USA. These specs again, the application is two-inch by two-inch trailer hitch receivers. It's ideal for trailers between 10,000 pounds and 20,000 pounds. Gross towing weight capacity is 20,000 pounds. And the weight capacity is 2000 pounds. But that should do it for the review on this Shocker Heavy Duty Air Receiver Hitch, with the raised 2 and 5/16ths ball mount. For two-inch hitch receivers and a 20,000 pound gross towing weight capacity..