Eljer Emblem Triangle Corner toilet. Help in identifying and updating a

[Pecos Will]

Hi,

We just bought a house built in 1948 and have a corner toilet in our master bathroom. I've never seen innards like this before and actually would love to update it as is. The searches I have come up with so far look similar to a case toilet, but it has a large size tank.

The confusing thing to me is the drop plunger for the flush valve. I replaced the fill valve with no problems. I replaced the drop plunger with something that I found in Home Depot. Interestingly the brass connection rod was not long enough, so I had to use the original rod.

It seems like it is still not seating correctly after flush and leaking on most flushes. I remedy it by pressing down on the rod after flush to seat the plunger down in there.

Do I need to try and update it using the same flushing process? If so, how? If I were to update it with a flapper system, the problem I have is the overflow pipe being part of the tank and not independent of it. Ideas?

Thanks,
Will

 

[Terry]

American Standard makes one.

 

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[Peterson]

That is an Eljer Emblem Triangle tank toilet from the 1960's. I would scrub the china overflow seat (where the tank ball drops on to) to make sure there's no gunk making the new tank ball not seat right. You could also disassemble the toilet and install the Eljer Touch Flush system, but that would be a pain.