Stripped stud on p/s pump. Fix or buy new?

[hey its me]

Originally Posted by franken

The pump is cast iron and if that hole is stripped, I'd get a rebuilt pump. I've found that often the pump on the vehicle isn't what came with it, so the new pump may not quite fit.
As you can see in the pic above, the return on the can is different.
You can buy bare pumps w/o the can for half the price of the one w/ the can. The pumps are all the same.

On a separate note, the pipe used as a spacer is ~2x longer than normal. It should be ~1".

Thanks for pointing that out. It's hard for me to know what things are suppose to look like, since it seems like everything has been tampered with/modified.

Anyways, I got a new stud in there, it's fixed. Thanks all.