"Bit-and-Pieces"construction

Well, it's been awhile since we've made any posts but we haven't done anything in sequence, primarily because we've been waiting on parts for the fuel tank. We requested some cap nuts twice, and both times they sent us the wrong nuts, but the third time was the charm. We are now at the point where we recently installed the landing gear spars, and had a pretty difficult time of it. Either the rivets were installed improperly or we just didn't have the skills to get the bracket for the gear installed. One of the pictures of the undercarriage shows the area where the strut fits, and the rivets that kept the bracket from fitting. We snipped the rivets that were there and then put in rivets from this side. I don't know if WE put in the rivets from the wrong side or Vans put them in, anyway, we couldn't fit the bracket that secured the struts without replacing the rivets.
Today, we took the 'whale' off its side and put it on the ground with her new 'legs' installed. I think we're ready to start making the zoom-zoom noises...
I over-torqued one of the bolts that holds on the bracket so we had to order another one from Spruce Aircraft in Peachtree City.