Thanks for all the help and encouragement so far. Especially to Eric, your advice proved to be spot on.
I measured the HV from the fly in my B&K analyst found it to be 8KV and then drew a screwdriver arc off of it so I had a reference to compare the fly arc of the Sylvania to. The fly to tripler lead disconnected from the tripler terminal arced much stronger than the analyst so I decided to track down a new tripler.
An ebay search (after google returned random garbage) came up with this part which is specified as a sub in sam's.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Sylvania...item1c3677a431
I got it today and installed it...
Someone clearly soldered it to something in the past.
The Sylvania replacement is smaller than the GC (IIRC) original.
The screw near the focus resistor had to be moved to the intelligently placed hole nearer to center, but other than that no significant mounting changes were needed.
I decided to place the terminals up(it could also have been mounted in the same position as the original) so that those terminals won't be pointing at me during chroma ocs slug adjustments.
I may put caulk over the IN and Focus posts later for safety.
It now works like before(except I can't get the chroma to synch) ie. the HV hovers between 19-24Kv. I'm going to work on the chroma osc. and look for my HO Tube breakout socket so I can adjust the lin. coil for lowest HOT current.