I think I may have finally figured out the problem with the motors,

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I think I may have finally figured out the problem with the motors, but now I need to know how to assign the E1 pins to be my Z2 pins for a dual z axis. There’s a way you can do it, but I haven’t figured it out yet. Apparently, the pins assigned to my MB (MKS_GEN_L for my MKS Gen v1.4) are simply assigned to ramps.h, and I replaced the enable, direction and step pins to Z2, but it had no effect. Does anyone know how to configure that?

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Ok, so I have to splice the 2 z motor wires together

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Just splicing could work, but that would put the motors in parallel mode, which means the current is divided between the motors. In series is better, because the current running through the motors is the same in that case. And since current is more important than voltage when running stepper motors, in series is better.

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I’ll have to do that later. I just went ahead and spliced them for now.