I am unclear why vinculin is not showing a difference if you load twice as much. Perhaps you have reached saturation on your detection in both lanes on exposure to ECL and so you no longer see a difference
For our high molecular weight proteins (>500 kDa) we routinely use either beta-actin or GAPDH. Even if we run a 3-8% Tris Acetate gel for these HMW proteins - beta actin will still be on the gel. This may be a better control for you. I would try a few controls.
Perhaps you can also do a serial 2-fold dilution with your cell lysate of choice across 6-8 lanes and then see which control shows the best linear decrease across this series.