I've finally had some time to spend in the garage working on both the wings and the fuselage. I really haven't accomplished a lot though and that's why I haven't really posted any updates.
For the wings, I have just starting attaching the root skin on the left wing and drilled the root skin stiffeners. I can't go any further until I find a way to dimple the holes in the root skin and leading edge wrap. Most of my spare money lately has been going into the house so that leaves me no money right now to buy a $200 c-frame dimpler. Once I do dimple the holes, I can get things together on the left wing.
Right now I have the left fuel tank sitting full of gas. Gas makes the tanks 'grow' a little so you want them 'grown' before you mount them and cover the wings.
As for the fuselage, I made the jig as per the manual, but the jig can only get the gear aligned 'close' but not exact. I've sent Rans an e-mail for clarification so I'll wait on the actual drilling.
Here the fuselage is hanging in the taxi position by the blue tie-down strap. This gets the gear off the ground and lets me attach the jig to the gear.
Here's the jig on the gear. There are so many variables that this jig is one step above being completely worthless. The jig can fit the two gear legs fine, but both gear can be in a left or right 'turn'. If the blocks are not perfectly perpendicular to the ground, then the toe in or tow out will be off. Even the jig itself can be rotated on the gear changing the gear geometry. If the left and right blocks are not perfectly parallel to each other, then again the geometry will be off. Not a good system for drilling the gear legs. I think this is where Rans dropped the ball. These gear legs could easily be pre-drilled at the factory and done perfectly. But they are not so I will try what ever magic it takes to get them aligned.