I feel like I owe you bros a final update.
So after a ton of waiting around I finally got everything in. All said and done, I probably would've saved money just going to a tech - but that's because I decided it was time for a new soldering station so I bought one. Taking apart my laptop is really shitty, like I said I've done it so many times now it's easy but it takes forever. Removing the jack on this thing was the worst experience of my life. I had to heat up my iron to 890F just to melt the solder on the jack and even then it was bullshit. I used solder braid and it was terrible - top 5 worst experiences of my life. Getting the solder out of the board after the jack was off was even worse.
I forgot to mention, a lot of people have trouble removing this laptop's jack and the solution is to tear the existing jack apart - like cutting it into pieces while it's still on the board. I actually ended up having to do that. I literally pulled out the jack by pieces. It was the point of no return then.
Finally I then soldered the new jack in about 30 seconds. I wasn't sure if I caused any damage running my iron so hot, but apparently not.
I think my cable might still be fucked up as it has some dead spots, but once you find a spot it charges fine. Before you would have to prop stuff up underneath the cable.
Here's to hoping it stays fixed.
Thanks for the confidence boost guys, I did it!