Creative solution to fix the gear selector needle?

[bennylava]

On my 87 silverado, that orange gear indicator needle keeps coming loose. Because long ago the loop for the cable broke off. It's supposed to be like this image:

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They have the cable going off to the right, but it's supposed to loop around that light colored plastic piece that's directly beneath the blinker. On my truck, that's broke off.

So I'm going to have to get creative. Where the broke piece should be, now I can see the metal of the dash. About the only thing I can think of to make it function like stock, is to somehow come up with a tiny pulley to fix in that spot.

Only other fix I can think of would be to skip that section, and somehow affix the whole thing to the steering column. But the cable is a bit too long, and it looks like it would still need something to guide it. Otherwise it would just keep slipping off the column and that would mess up the repair.

I would like to avoid having to buy a whole new gauge pod. It wouldn't be fun to move all my gauges (and their mods I've done) over to a new pod. Any ideas?