amazing to me how every few years we rehash the whole hydrolock protection deal, only to come back to the same conclusion.
and to throw some actual facts into the conversation, all engines in the zg / zx family that came after the original zg1000 had a clutched starter drive gear to mitigate the forces that would bend a rod. zrx's still hydrolock, they just don't damage the rods when it happens. HTh, Steve