Steering column inner shaft problem

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Disassembled the entire column and have most of the parts to rebuild, but ran into an issue with the inner shaft. I assume it should not look like the pictures below. The lower bearing must have went out a very long time ago, lost it's marbles and eventually the inner race itself. The lower bearing spring then started to bind up in the gap between the outer race and the inner shaft and started to wear down the shaft were it pinched. Aside from a replacement inner shaft, any ideas on how to fix this? I have the new bearing and a lower spring out of a 67. The new lower spring looks to be close enough to what's left of the 65 original lower bearing old spring. Thanks in advance. Also, any ideas where I might be able to find a 65 lower bearing spring from any vendors if I do wind up needing it?