What you may want to try is to run the emergency cable thru the same rubber plug that the existing cable runs thru. Make a loop, put a handle, or have excess cable on the end so you can grab it to pull. Then just tape the rest in place against the top/back of the foot well so it doesn't fall down. This way you have a back up cable, but you can keep it inside locked up where no one can get to it. -Robert vin 6585 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, deloreanernst@xxxx wrote: > In a message dated 8/31/00 4:26:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dmc1219@xxxx > writes: > > << Someone pulled too hard & the cable broke at the latch. Fortunately, this > is an early '81 with the gas flap. >> > > I've got D World, with the hidden mini cable backup. I've even seen it on an > '81 I was looking into buying. But that was dreamed up in the gas flap era. > Anybody used that fix on a non-flap vehicle? I tried sticking my big > ape-sized (according to a friend) hand in there for size, and "it don't fit, > bubba!" > > -Wayne > 11174