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Eh? I thought you said you greased everything on 4-May???
If you can't tighten bolt without locking up suspension, that's very poor design. Take look at how Ninja 250's swingarm and shock-linkages work. There are needle bearings and the shaft that goes through bearing is what's pinched by bolts. You can tighten those bolts as hard as you want and it won't pinch bearings!
You really should gather some concrete data before proceeding further. Measure factory OEM spring that came out of shock to know for sure what you're dealing with. Given low-quality assmbly and lack of QA, i'm sure they just grab any spring from parts bin that's available. When they run out, they just grab from next available bin. Your spring may be completely different than other's. So measure yours to know what actually came on your bike! Sure, compress it 0.25-0.50" to get within bathroom-scale's capacity.
Also if you need to leave nuts loose to allow suspension to pivot, get some ny-lock nuts along with Loctite. Be sure to move swingarm up and down by hand with NO shock installed to verify it pivots smoothly.
Post some photos of this suspension, in pieces and assembled. Would be interesting to look at design.
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