KW's 1979 Ford LTD Landau

[Kodachrome Wolf]

ok so it didn't have a threaded-in thing. Probably has or had a retaining ring in there to hold it all together. Is that aluminum or steel? If it happens to be a mix of metals, then you get nasty corrosion problems.

There is some threaded plug on the front, but I haven't removed that at this particular moment since it was puking from the end photographed. The body appears to be aluminum.

Considering how awful the brake system was to start with, I wonder if once things started finally getting "worked" by a properly functioning system that it was only a matter of time before something let go. The leaking original master was just full of mud, the rear brakes were non-existent due to the blown rear cylinders, and the brake booster was bad.

[gadget73]

entirely possible. At some point things get so bad that everything ends up wasted and a full gut and re-do is the only solution.