I am very sorry this happened, but this is why I have been repeatedly telling people to remove the tensioner, push the plunger through and then restart the plunger. Maybe my instructions weren't very clear.

I don't know if I said this in your thread or if you even had a thread, but this has been discussed repeatedly for the last five years that I've been on this forum.

Please read thoroughly. It is sort of like carpenters rule except instead of measure twice, cut once, it is read twice, do once.

I hope others learn from your misery. I have had similar misery before and posted here in an effort to help others.

Doing a job like this without a manual is false economy. Having a manual and not reading it is I don't know what.

Again, I'm sorry for your misery.

BTW, it would be much less trouble to pull the head again, replace the bent valves and whatever else it needs and put it back together, than it would be to find another engine. If the oil has been changed even a little bit, the bottom end of that engine should be barely broken in. What did the cylinder walls look like when the head was off? At 176,000 miles I still had crosshatch on my 103 cylinder walls.

I personally would fix that motor LONG before I would put a used engine in that I had no history on.

BTW, don't consider this the fault of the chain. Had the tensioner plunger been restarted and all guides inspected the chain would have gone forever.

Good luck,