Footrest

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hiking bear
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Footrest

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Just been looking at some Dexta photos on the web and have noticed that they all have a left hand footrest. Been to check on mine and its missing?? Ive read about this before, something to do with a live drive? Mine does not have that. Any ideas for the missing footrest..........
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Re: Footrest

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hiking bear wrote:Just been looking at some Dexta photos on the web and have noticed that they all have a left hand footrest. Been to check on mine and its missing?? Ive read about this before, something to do with a live drive? Mine does not have that. Any ideas for the missing footrest..........
Don't think it's to do with Live Drive.

My non-live drive Dexta only had a footrest on the right with a cap on the left.

I purchased another footrest and just swapped it for the cap as footrests are not left/right handed. I see Agriline is now selling footrests.
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Post by The Swanndri Guy »

hiking bear, I've got a Super Dexta with Livedrive and no left sided foot rest.TSG.
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Post by RossM »

My Super also had no left foot peg. I took the right one and turned it over for the left side to get fresh chequer grip and got another good one of a scrap tractor to put on the right.
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The Swanndri Guy wrote:hiking bear, I've got a Super Dexta with Livedrive and no left sided foot rest.TSG.
Same here, only a brake foot rest on our SuperD
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Hi my dexta live drive also has no left footrest..must be something to do with live drive
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Post by Lesfen »

Both our '62, Live Drive, Super Dexta's have 2 foot rests.

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Post by Supertractorman »

Just to be different my 64 Super Dexta has a footrest on clutch side but none on brake side. Think I will get one.
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Post by dexta roadless »

I have two footrests on two of my Dextas, but only one on that Roadless. I thought maybe it was because of the front wheel outlet, but now I see it is common.
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Post by Mark »

It may have something to do with the clutch pedal on the Dexta's being so high causing the pedal to hit your leg.
Just a thought probably wrong.
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Post by Raymondc71 »

Mark i think that is true..
It would be awkard to drive with that footrest when the clutch is set high
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