If your brass stub is anything like the ones I've come across, then you can reuse it on your new hose, the stub has a flange inside the radiator hose, and a shaped spacer retained by a slender nut on the outside, the correct hose would have a ready hole for this, when assembling pass the stub up the bore of the hose. If you need, I can take a pic of a stub and hose I have yet to fit. Good luck finding decent quality hoses, there's some atrocious rubbish out there, I recently removed a lot of expensive rubber from an old Rover that had only been there a few years, usurping stuff that had served decades. The paper labels boasting of the kevlar content were still in good condition, the hoses were perished and rotten throughout.
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