You have made the most sense from anything I've seen thus far with set up.
I have to clean up my car from Memorial day weekend this evening. I'll clean out the car and begin messing with the suspension.
Just to confirm, you simply remove all the shock oil, reassemble the shock (leave the pistons and everything alone) --- and start from the highest tensioner point on all shocks? (You know... where you can put more pressure on the suspension, or less).
You then balance out the car by adjusting those tensioners yes?