I will probably just get a couple more live wire patch cables for the shorties. They work fine for me. the longer ones I have, I don't really want to have to buy over. They work fine too. So replacing the jacks should work fine. I will follow the solder method in those vids I find if I don't just buy new cables altogether. The blue stuff is heat shrink, and I think both insulates and protects the connection once it is soldered together, and provides stress relief from bending. It goes on with a heat gun as shown in the last vid I linked above.

It would be a fun project, but if I am in almost the cost of a new live wire cable with parts, I may just buy the cables and have my current ones as back ups. They have lifetime warranties on them too that might be voided if I mod them.