Advice on manual style brake master cylinder on 70 Dart

There is a thread on here somewhere that has many different approaches to removal.
When I did mine the method I used worked great.
After removing the master cylinder and draining it I used my floor jack to do the work.
I fed the rod through the floor jack and placed a big screwdriver through the pivot hole to hold it under the jack.
Then with the floor jack pad removed I used it to press up on the MC body and the rod came right out.