Relay and Overload... need to replace both?

Refrigerator & Freezer Repair
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Hey all,
The other day we were having a party and the wife decides to put plug a fryer and a griddle into the same outlet as the refrigerator… long story short, i was not home and the breaker kicked a good 3-4 times until she figured out she could run everything at once. Excellent.

Well today i come home and the fridge is 60F as is the freezer. Everything is melted and shot. Excellent again.

Anyway i did some reading on here and pulled the Relay and Overload and checked the compressor leads…

Relay: not only does it rattle but little pieces fall out of it. So obviously that’s shot.

Overload: looks fine, is there a way to check it?

Compressor: Between each leads ready about 6ohm… leads to copper tubing, no continuity. So it should be good, yes?

So, should I just buy the Relay for $60 or do I also have to get the Overload for another $50?

Thanks all!

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Come to think of it… over the past year or so the wife was saying that items there were in the fridge were freezing in the back sometimes… so i dropped the dial down and everythings been fine since. Wonder if that was a sign the relay may have been going out? And this on/off with the breaker just killed it?