Holley 1850 fuel transfer tube seals??

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I thought I would give a little update of how things went this summer and I have a question. So first the Holley was a epic FAIL! Lol, as soon as I started the truck ( my 56 Dodge with 318 ) it started running poorly which I discovered was due to flooding, I tried adjusting the floats and watching for fuel to come out the side bowl screws, it eventually diluted the oil with fuel badly and being as I just wanted to drive this old truck for the first time in the 40 years it had been off the road I just said f@#k it, ripped it off and put on the Eddy carb that I new worked and changed the oil. Anyway summers over, the truck is tucked away in the garage for the winter and I thought now I have a little time I'd take another look at the Holley. I pulled off both the bowls and inspected the float levels, if I'm correct when you invert the bowl the float should sit leval, one was not the other was close so I adjusted them. I could not see anything else that looked out of wack. Maybe one of the floats was just hung up the first time I installed it? Looking back i wish I had thought to tap the bowls with a screw driver but I didn't. So with that said I'm am re-installing the bowls and noticed one of the transfer tube o-rings was pinched/damaged so I thought maybe this time I'll use the tube seals that look like the ones in the photo in the start of this post but assuming that the lip of the seal goes toward the lip on the end of the transfer tube I can not get the tube to seat in the bowls deep enough to tighten the screws and seat the bowls almost like I'd need a shorter transfer tube? What am I missing here? I'm going to tag Rob here because he said in my original post the he preferred the seals over the orings but anyone feel free to answer. @RustyRatRod .