Hey Christopher:
I did my install, and ran into the exact same problem, the Skinz front end is rather touchy to adjust and exactly where in ride height do you measure "vertical" or one degree of camber?
What I have figured out is regardless of where in the travel you set your spindles to vertical, the suspension goes to positive camber (spindles leaning away from the sled) for the first 3 or so inches of travel, meaining it probably doesn't really matter too much where you "set" your initial camber adjustment. And of all the guys who tested it last year, I never heard anything about its sensitivity on install, aka it probably wasn't an issue.
As a starting pont, I set mine at rest with weight on the suspension (no rider), but I bet if I did bounced on the sled a couple of times, it wouldn't be vertical again...its that touchy to vertical adjustment.
When setting up this suspension I would say this as a start:
1. Adjust your upper and lower suspension hiem joints to vertical with weight on (exclude rider).
2. If you want to readjust it, remember that your steering will go out of wack because the steering link relys on the upper and lower suspension hiem joints being in the same "relative" position. Adjust upper or lower hiem joints and your steering alignment is gone, you need a reajust.
3. I found that when installing this suspension ('11 MTX), you had to "shorten" your steering links relative to stock. So when doing the install, you have to move both locknuts on the steering links closer to the hiem joints (both ends). Originally, I tried to keep the locknut position (thus link length) on one side as close as possible to stock, but it didn't work. I ended up with one of my steering links 3/8" longer than the other to make everthing work. It lined up OK, but my worry was the effect of having different length steering links on bump steer.
With so many of us about to hit the snow, someone is going to answer this question definitively. So before you commit to the red loctite on everything, maybe better to do a few laps using blue (or without) and then do an adjust. I already found out that red loctite on the upper spindle hiem joint nut is a single use activity (nut destroyed because you can only use an open ended wrench to hold it).
All this said, this suspension is going to work. I would say it takes about half the effort to rail this thing on its side in my basement. I can only imagine what its going to be like in 2 feet of POW.
Well done Skinz.
OTM.