I used the book "The AR-15 Complete Assembly Guide, Volume 2" by Walk Kuleck and Clint McKee as my guide. Another good guide is on the AR15.com website, but my printer is down at the moment and I didn't feel like carrying my laptop down to the basement.
After everything was said and done, it took me around an hour to assemble the entire lower. I'll not go through each step, but I will give you what I've learned.
First off... if you buy a lower parts kit, print out a nice detailed schematic of the lower and all of the parts. The schematic that came with my parts kit was pretty much useless and the details in the book left it hard to figure out exactly which pin/spring they were talking about. I used the DPMS lower parts kit, so I would recommend going to their website and printing off nice color photos of each part with a description.
Second... make sure you have a good set of STEEL pins... brass pins work... but the smaller diameter ones can bend easily.
Third... get the lower receiver block... this thing was absolutely priceless when putting these parts together... its a lot easier to drive in pins when the receiver is secured to the block.
I think that's it for now... I'll go to the gun show next weekend and see about getting my stock... then the lower will be complete and I can move on to the upper. I'll had pics later on of the lower as it is now.
Here's some pics of my lower as of now...
Mike
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