have you though about taking metal putty knife/scraper and putting a kink in it so you could flip the mechanism? or if the wife/girlfriend/mom/sister has a small bent icing spatula

 

just saw this post. My gas door has been 'stuck' for over a year. My solution was using an ice ax as a 'key'. Scared to pooh out of some Oregonian gas attendants (cant pump your own gas there) when I hopped out of the truck wielding the ax. Now days the hatch just flops around like the lower lip of a slack-jawed yocal--rather undignified.

 

this happened to me a few weeks ago. i got it open eventually and promptly removed the lock from the door.

 

well right now i just took the tab and pushed it enough where the door is open about a inch and i can still open it. still trying to think what to do

 

before i put my fiberglass bedsides on, my gas door bounced around alot and it was really annoying. to fix it i took a small magnet and put it on the back side of the door and then put a small bolt with a flat head where the stock rubber bumper was. this held it enough from flappin around but was still easy to open.

 

To bad the trucks arn`t set up like first gen 4Runners, were you can just pull the cable latch under the dash and the gas door pops open.

 

how hard you think it would be to do a swap like that??? this key has been giving me lots of problems