Well, the bypass idea did NOT WORK!
fail BIG TIME!!
https://i.imgur.com/6P12EZj.jpg
caused an echo image, which was ironically at about the same place that I had be seeing the shadow image, so who knows, it may BE delay line related, I will have to wait till the next time I have the chassis out to know for sure, I still wish I i could find a NOS Miller cross reference chart someplace, as IF i have to replace it, I'm sure that site has one I'm just not sure WHICH one,
In the mean time, I'm gonna work on what I CAN do w/o pulling the chassis, as in getting the convergence as perfect as I can, I made a few mistakes in placing the parts on the, CRT neck, but it did not seem to matter much, I still cant get it the way I like it, I may never will, there are some original resistors on the convergence PCB that I intend to change next, that may help.
Aside from that, there is a moderate list of minor annoyances to hit next time I pull the chassis... heavy sigh!