Scott,
I’ve been looking at the rod ends on that website and it seems like they are made for heavier walled tubing than the landing gear tubing on the LEXL. (.058 versus .035). This would suggest the rod ends would be a loose fit in the.035 tubes.
Did you have any problem with that?
The short answer here, is that things change- meaning what is available,
While I have not taken the time, I suspect that somewhere/someone is now supplying the correct fitting weld in rod end female ends. It is never fun to make up for a large loos fit, certainly not with simply a rosette weld, but I always plug weld to boot. So again, this kind of loose fit would not be the best.
I would look to see if you can find a better fit. .023 or 1/2 of that at .0115 gap is fairly large.
All that being said, if you can jig well, this can be done. Keeping it square pay huge dividends..