Grab and pull/push on the gear that is the end of the input shaft. Those two you can't really see. They turn at a higher RPM than the rest and seem to wear sooner compared with the rest of the bearings.
And what Jim said about checking axle play. You can also jack one side and then the other and pry under the tire to check for play, like checking ball joints on a car.
Did the fractured parts have shiny surfaces or dark? If they're dark then they've probably been in there a while and left over from a previous failure. Back in the fall I pulled a ball or two and several ball pieces from inside a 450 I was cleaning up. Scared me at first, but they were dark and upon pulling the brake housing found a newish non-IH bearing on the left side of the diff indicating the original failure point. So it is possible that they're leftovers.
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