dude the washer is on there in the picture. so, if thats not your pic and you dont have that washer on your car you may wanna check into getting one of them. they cost like 7 cents from ace hardware so go get a pair of them, cause all you got holding the nut above the strut plate is the rubber bumpstop, and when i had that on my car, the nut got forced through the rubber hole and the rubber things popped off into the engine bay leaving nothing above the strut plate but the piston and nut (which, by the way, will fit through the strut plate hole if you get enough air for that to happen) like i was describing earlier

1995 Eclipse GS - HRC Stage 2 - Retired.
2004 350z Enthusiast / 2008 Nissan Versa SL