Crossmember nuts fell out

[diccboi]

So I was just cruising down the street going to get some food. I switched lanes for a turn and *BADONK* my steering locks up and its super hard to steer. I do my right turn so I can pull over. I'm at full lock and the car is BARELY turning. Pull over and try to check out what's wrong. I see the front left sway bar bracket snapped. No biggie. The plan was to drive home on the inside streets cus I didn't live that far and just do a sway bar delete until I could find a new bracket or a whole new sway bar. I get home lift my car up take the wheels off and notice this is alot worse then I expected. Cross member isnt even attached to the bolts on the driver side. No nuts anywhere. I don't know what to do and how hard it will be to get it back together. Anyone know where I can get the nuts and what I'll need to do. Will it be as easy as just jacking the cross member up and torquing down the nuts?

[PapaSmurf2k3]

That sounds scary. Do you have any pictures?
For some reason I thought those were studs, not bolts, but I could be wrong. Is the other side still OK? I would think it would be as easy as jacking it up and re-torquing like you said, but hopefully nothing else got damaged or bent.

[diccboi]

Not sure how to post a picture?

[diccboi]

https://imgur.com/a/Rtn0P

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Got it. Yeah I thought those were studs, but I've never had this happen to me.
Try putting some nuts on there and torquing that bad larry down.
Looks like it should be outlined in the FSM, page FA-12.
http://www.nicoclub.com/service-manual? ... 1992_240sx
Torque is 88-108 N*m, 65-80 ft*lb, unless I'm looking at the wrong fastener.

[asoomal]

It's just two bolts connected to some thin long plate.



I would first chase those threads with the appropriate die with some cutting fluid, clean and dry them with brake clean, acetone, methyl hydrate, etc.

Put some blue thread locker on before you spin the nut back on and torque to spec.