International Grain Drill

Is your drill single or double disk openers? Most of the later models were double disk.

The clutch lift was a rope pull. It showed it in my manual, sorry I cant help you on just how it worked or even how it should look.

These drills could also be equiped with two grass seed boxes one for fine seed and one for coarse seed. The grass seeds from both boxes just fell behind the disks and were covered by 4" ring type chain pulled behind each disk boot. These had 3 to 4 rings and rings were joined by chain type links. My drill had both type grass seed boxes, and the only time I ever used the chains was if I were under seeding the grain with grass, just to cover the grass seed. I always rolled my land after seeding either way. If soil was real loose I have rolled land ahead of drill as well to give a firmer seed bed.

That clutch lift should work as follows; You must be moving for it to work. It has two positions at 180 degrees from each other that it will lock into. One is up and the other being down. Usually these are quite trouble free and last for years. They do need cleaning as the combination of grease and dust build up inside. This clutch lift principle was used for many years on a lot of different equipment. By the time it was perfected everyone went to hydraulics. Minkind's progress is a wonderful thing.