Planed some wood into dimensional stringers then worked on the wheel well area again. Drilled and enlarged hole in rib to allow landing gear retract spring to pass through and operate. Need to enlarge it some more but first I must add stiffeners fro strength. The stiffener that was installed according to plans will have to cut through to permit the spring to fit. Ray sent me a nice picture of this area that was taken during the build. I likely have this photo in all the other great photos that he'd provided. Admittedly I haven't sorted through all of those 50 year old pictures yet. Regardless, the picture that Ray sent me should indicate how the ribs were situated and how everything fit, but as it turns out, they must have made changes to the structure after the picture was taken. The spring return wasn't installed at the time of the picture and looking at it, it wouldn't have fit had they kept the ribs that way. So it seems they must have made some further modifications as they continued with the build.
So it's trial and error as I go.
I ran some tape between the tops of the ribs to replicate the skin. This allows me to visualize how much space I have for the gear to retract into the wing. I'm going to have to mock up some new landing gear forks. The existing ones are damaged beyond use and only provide a vague clue how it will all fit together.
Epoxied in the bottom strip for the leading edge subspar and fabricated the secondary subspar, which will reside where the blue tape is in the photos. All of this will strengthen this area and allow me to cut the stiffener that's in the way of the retract spring.