Contemplating Rodeo purchase, some questions

[gonzo1]

I have really liked the 2 Rodeos that I have and as long as you can tolerate the inherant "must fix" items on these vehicles, they are very sturdy cars.
the lucky part of owning these cars is there is no guessing of things that will and do go south, once the car gets to a certain milage the list is the same on all of them and by reading these blogs you can make that list and then fix them one at a time. There are no mystery problems.
The hard shifting problem that plagues most of the 97-98 AT's has gotten a lot of people spending money that usually is not necessary and with a little knowledge and crawling under the car can fix this problem with no expense. I found out by trial and error and getting copies of the Alldata manuals and bulletins how to fix it (in most cases).

I highly recommend the use of "just answer" for real technical problems.

The 5 months I have been waiting for a shift cable is getting old so if anyone has experience making shift cables and custom fitting them please let me know. I am at the point that I can't wait another month without knowing if Isuzu will even realease the shift cable backorder.
Also if anyone has figured out how to by pass the shift module let me know.