t-case/tranny cross member fell off

ok so heres the problem a while back maylong my t-case cross member came unbolted on the driver side....after a weekend of wheeling so i fixed it and all was fine ive beat on it since then and its seemed to hold up fine untill today when i was just exploring some back roads nothin major just gravel road and minor deactivations....so i came down into this valley and decided to throw it into 4wd on the way back up and make it a little easier as its was pretty loose in sections and half way up the hill i hear clunk clunk boom and i knew right then what had happen so i walked back after findin a good size landing to fix it and luckily found the drop bracket and bolts so i bolted it back up....bottle jack and a socket set
(go figure the one day i dont bring my whole tool set)..im assuming its stripped.. so after all that i get 3/4 the way back to my friends house and it comes undone again so currently i have one bolt and several tack welds holing up...should be fine aslong i keep it in 2wd my question is has anyone had this problem and found a better way to secure the cross member with more strength....i figure retap and hope it holds maybe throw some tack welds on...really sucks cause now i cant go wheelin or put it in 4wd until i fix it :tear:

thanks in advance

Is there a question somewhere in that sentence?

Yucca-Man said:

Is there a question somewhere in that sentence?

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is there a sentence somewhere in that post?

JB weld held my rear yoke together for a couple weeks after I.. well... I wont get into that. Then I got stupid and absolutely destroyed the thing... but hey...

see here:
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93475

thanks i dont know how i missed that.......but i bought a tap and dye set today so hopefully that will work

and sorry bout the long jumble of words/story

and would i be damaging anything if i were to say takle a hole saw and cut some holes above the nutserts and do it that way

maybe your fingers from the hole saw.....

The way the crossmember is secured to the frame is super janky. I love it when the welds break that hold the nut to the inside of the uni-frame. Fuckin rediculous.
I just cut holes from inside the cab, welded a nut to a plate. then welded the plate to the inside of the frame. Just make sure that u dont tighten the shit out of it when u put the c/member back up. They are not supposed to be tightened with quatludes of torque.