@norder Thank you for your reply. I apologize for my delayed response.
I did clean everything up, gave it a few drops of thin or very thin oil where needed and made sure everything moved freely and easily.
Thank you for the suggestion on the print bed. I looked at them when you posted and may just go that direction.
I like what you've done with your M558 probe code with adding multiple times to probe each spot, the tolerance and then probe recovery time. Here's what mine is currently set for. This is the one generated by the config wizard:
M558 P1 C"zprobe.in" H5 F120 T6000
I have not had a chance to add in some of the things you've identified yet - my wife is finally better from c19 so hopefully soon. I am wondering if those settings - slowing down, multi probe and time delay - will make a difference in the readings I am getting ( see post above ). Hopefully I can make this changes tomorrow and give it a test! Will post my results.