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Okay, yesterday I had the time to fix the dang thing. Here's a report of how it went:
* Went to homedepot, bought a full toilet guts replacement kit.
* Turned off the water, removed the old guts from the tanks.
* Removed the tank from the commode base.
* Turned out that the bolts (4 of them) that held the commode to the toilet for the last 25 years are iron. The heads of the bolts sit in the tank and were nothing but rust. Below the tank, the bolts' shafts were fine, but I needed to remove a nut from each shaft. As I could not stabalize rusted heads of the bolts, when I turned the nuts, the bolts turned as well. I used a pair of locking pliers to hold the bottom of the shafts of the bolts while I used a wrench to turn the bolts.
* The new guts went into the bowl super quickly, maybe 15 minutes.
* The tank went right back on easy as pie.
The whole thing took a little over an hour, not including the trip back to homedepot for the locking pliers and a plumber's wrench.
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"It's a long story," says I, and let him up.
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