Richard,
I've done a few of these problem childs... and I've come up with this fixture to single point threads in castings and repair/chase existing problems.
For as many miles of threads I cut in my day to day work, this isn't a real big thing. I don't do this type of work for hire but here's a picture of one of the actions I salvaged, it was a LW that I welded up the several different areas and re-machined. Probably should have just tossed it for the effort required.
Photo f3 is of a Farrow that had the threads tapped, they weren't square with the world. It has a shank stuffed in it to get it close when I went to the lathe and I'd mapped it out so I had an idea how it needed to be dialed in to square things up with the breech block. I chased the threads, truing them up to the face, even though they weren't a standard size, I made the barrel and fit it. It turned out well, torqued up square and everything was fine.
If the threads in your action are sound, turn a plug that fits the threads to a snug/tight fit, leave several inches of shank (turned true at the same time as when you cut your threads) to dial your action in, make this simple fixture,

and dial to the shank. From here you can take a light skin on the face of the action to put it square to the threads, easy peasy...
Maybe 5¢ worth of info?
Greg