This is an Admiral Refrigerator. The relay needs to be replaced. old one has electrical prongs at locations numbered 2 & 3. the new one has electrical prongs at locations 1, 2 & 3. Have double checked to make sure it is the correct part and they say it is.
the old one had a black & white wire tied together that was then plugged into the number 2 position. And a single wire for the number 3 position. My question is, can I leave the wires the way they are and just use the number 2 & 3 position prongs like the old one, OR do I have to separate the black & white wire that used to be one prong position 2, and use the number 1 & 2 positions for those 2 wires? AND if I do, then in what position does the white and black wires go to? Does the black wire go to position number 1 or 2? and the same question for the white wire.

I did contact the manufacturer and they said this new relay was the correct one for my refrigerator, even though the old one had only two electrical prongs in position 2 & 3 and the new one has 3 electrical prongs in positions 1, 2 & 3. When I asked them about the extra prong in the number 1 position and whether it needed to be used by splitting my combined black and white wires that were on number 2 prong, they said they didn't know and that I should contact a refrigeration person. so this is why i posted the question here. to see if anyone knew what i was to do. thanks for your reply but i don't think I really understood it.