If you have a way to measure high temps, confirm that the 240 you are setting is what you are getting. I have noticed as much as a 30 degree difference between reported and actual sometimes. So your temp could still be too low. You might need to run a PID calibration on your extruder and bed. There are several tutorials on doing that on Google. It's the same for all printers.

I will try this and see what temp my extruders are putting out. I have an infrared temp gun so hopefully that will do the trick.

I may have spoken too soon, damnit. I still get that small bump in the first layer...i dont understand why that happens it's so odd.

Could your filament be old or been out long enough to absorb moisture?

Also you could slow down more just to get the print done.

Then your steps per mm on the extruder could be off...

I just checked it and it actually ate up exactly 100mm of filament from the reference point like it was supposed to. I'm running a new print test cube right now with the higher temp and the slower speeds and there's already a noticeable difference in how its printing a POSITIVE difference Hopefully this allows me to calibrate the extrusion thickness correctly without their being holes in the walls.

What you have to do is download one of the many single walled boxes out there on thingiverse. Set your slicer to print at one perimeter, no infill and print that box. With a .4 nozzle like you should have, the wall thickness once printed should be .48mm if your feed rate is set right. If it is more or less then that needs to be tuned. I am at work right now so I don't remember where the setting is. I believe it is in the extruder settings on the slicer configuration.

But makes sure the steps per mm are correct first.

That's actually what I have been trying to do but I cant even get the print to get as far as building the walls without them being riddled with holes or the print just completely messing up within the first layer. I set all my settings for the box to be just a single wall perimeter with no infill like you said.

Raise your temp and slow down to about 35mm/s or less. You also have to calibrate your steps per mm on the extruder as well as calibrate your feed rate in your slicer.

I will raise my temp to 240 for the abs and slow the print down to 35mm/s and try it out. You just reminded me I hadn't done the extruder calibration on this particular extruder. I'll go head and dial that in like I did for the other one. But what do you mean by "feed rate in your slicer"? Are you referring to the feed rate slider on the manual operation tab within repetier host?

What you have to do is download one of the many single walled boxes out there on thingiverse. Set your slicer to print at one perimeter, no infill and print that box. With a .4 nozzle like you should have, the wall thickness once printed should be .48mm if your feed rate is set right. If it is more or less then that needs to be tuned. I am at work right now so I don't remember where the setting is. I believe it is in the extruder settings on the slicer configuration.

But makes sure the steps per mm are correct first.