Steering box rebuild

I dealt with some guy in the mid west several years ago. He was going in for knee surgery soon, but he was going to send me a "rebuilt" fast ratio steering chuck for my Dodge truck. Well, he sent me a chuck, alright, but it was just a repainted steering box out of a wrecking yard. It had rust in it, FFS. At the time no one was doing steering boxes for trucks, and I got his name out of a Mustang magazine, who did a big article on this guy rebuilding their steering box. Anyway, I'd double check references and make sure this isn't the same operation.