Healthy Head?

junkyardhero said

pushrods don't generally "just bend"... something has to precipitate the issue. without figuring that out, you're just gonna bend two more push rods.

so the way that i'm reading it, is you took the head to the machine shop and said: yo, check this out. and then they called you after [insert amount of time] and said: hey it's ready, come bring us money.

so then you meandered on down to the shop, gave them a stack of folding money and went on your way without any discussion of the work that took place in exchange to said aforementioned folding monies?

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When you have the problem and confront them, they will just say, "we did what you asked, we cleaned up the heads". As others mentioned here, there is a reason the two pushrods bent. I could not tell from your photos, but did the valves hit the pistons in those two cylinders. Was the motor running a little ruff before the malfunction? Possible nothing wrong with the head, but possible a timing chain jump or something else in that way. I would remove the lifters from the mishap bores and check them out for anything that does not look correct. If they are ok, make sure you install them in the same location.