2026 East to West Silver Lake2400BH

The Silver Lake 2400BH leaves East to West's factory at 4,723 lbs dry with 2,852 lbs of cargo capacity. East to West publishes no GVWR for this line, so the loaded rating is not quoted on this page and is not computed from the other two figures. What the cargo number covers is defined by the factory: fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory come out of it. Fresh water is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling the 40-gallon fresh tank spends 332 lbs of the 2,852 lbs before anything else goes in.

Dry tongue weight is 575 lbs, or 12% of the dry weight. Ten to fifteen percent is the conventional band for a bumper-pull trailer, and this plan sits inside it as published. Tongue weight is not fixed: it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A weight-distribution hitch is the normal fitment at this tongue load, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit.

Tank capacities are 40 gallons fresh, 30 grey and 30 black, 60 gallons of waste capacity against 40 gallons of supply. The ratio is what governs how long the trailer can sit off hookups: waste capacity exceeds fresh, so the fresh tank is the binding constraint and refilling extends the stay. East to West publishes these three figures per floorplan, and they are the factory's numbers rather than a segment average.

Against the rest of the Silver Lake roster this is the 4th of 10 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 3,548 lbs to 7,518 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight. Comparing floorplans inside one line is more reliable than comparing across brands, because every figure here comes from the same factory channel on the same day.

A useful way to read these figures is to stop planning against the dry weight. Nobody tows a trailer at 4,723 lbs: that is the weight before water, batteries, propane, bedding, food, tools and anything the dealer bolted on. Load half the published cargo capacity and this plan is already near 6,149 lbs on the road. Because East to West publishes no loaded rating for this line, the ceiling has to come from the trailer's own weight label rather than from this page, and the comparison you make against the tow vehicle should use the loaded figure.

Every number above was captured twice from East to West and checked against itself before it was published. The line listing and the individual floorplan page are two separate factory renderings of the same trailer, and this plan's 4 shared figures agree exactly on both. There is no published GVWR on this line, so the usual arithmetic check - dry plus cargo equals the rating - has nothing to test against here. Where a figure is missing from this page it is because East to West does not publish it in this channel, not because it was hard to find - and the row says so rather than being quietly dropped.

East to West publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 2400BH is a Silver Lake designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

Silver Lake is the lightest complete roster on this site from any East to West line, and it is organised around a single split. Three LE plans are single-axle trailers from 3,548 lb dry with 475 to 550 lb on the tongue; the other seven are tandem-axle and run to 7,518 lb dry with 565 to 780 lb on the tongue. Every one of the ten is a bumper pull. The practical read is that the whole line stays inside what a half-ton truck or a large SUV can carry on the ball, and the single-axle plans stay inside what a good many mid-size vehicles can -- but the tow rating that matters is the one on your own door sticker, against the loaded weight rather than the dry figure. Cargo capacity runs 1,062 to 3,462 lb.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 334 lb of water, 12% of the 2400BH’s 2,852 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,518 lb. Across 10 Silver Lake floorplans the water share runs 10% to 31%, and 8 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Silver Lake 3250QB at 10% and Silver Lake 2300RD at 13%.

Closest sibling: the Silver Lake 2300RD, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 4 of the 7 fields both publish (this plan first): length 28 ft 7 in vs 27 ft 10 in; dry weight 4,723 lb vs 4,953 lb; cargo capacity 2,852 lb vs 2,612 lb; dry hitch weight 575 lb vs 565 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by dry weight: Silver Lake 1700BHLE is 390 lb lighter (4,333 lb dry); Silver Lake 2300RD is 230 lb heavier (4,953 lb dry).

All 10 Silver Lake floorplans: Silver Lake line hub.

Against the 2400BH: the Springdale 2300BH is 1 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter; the Viking 242MK is 1 lb heavier and 2 ft shorter; the Puma Tracks 235BH is 5 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter.

10 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 2400BH. Not published: GVWR, interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.