For the last few flights I've been having problems with skydrol blowing all under the plane and haven't been sure where it was coming from. I'm in the process of pulling up the floor again and need to do this anyway because I need to clean the skydrol out of the plane. However, after searching a bit it appeared to be coming from up towards the front landing gear area. Nothing was wet up there though so the search continued.
We then discovered the left rudder pedal boot on the pilot side was completely soaked in skydrol and already had holes in it. I still can't figure out how that much skydrol got down inside the boot itself but Morris says it runs down the pedal linkage arm and just collects there until it eventually just starts running into the belly.
I noticed the left master cylinder for the brake leaking a little the other day when we were investigating the locked up brake problem but didn't think it was that severe since the floor under it had no skydrol on it at all. I'm still baffled by this and will let you know if I find something else once I pull the floor up.
However, last night I removed the brake cylinder from the plane and took it apart and here are a few pictures. The cylinder has grooves in it and the piston is scared pretty good. The o-rings seemed fairly new though so not sure how it got in such bad shape. Perhaps the shop in Athens put new o-rings in it and put it back together in such bad condition. It seems like they did do something there but not 100% and not really on talking terms with them anymore.
Anyway, here are a few pics: