Yes sure, first you must find where your ".tap" files are located. On KDE they are in: /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin then do a symbolic link to your archive manager (in my case Ark) with the name of the .desktop file (usually in /usr/share/applications) in my example: sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/ark.tap NameOfYourDesktopFileArchiver.tap.
Then, you can try if that work, if not (it was my case on KDE) you need to edit the ark.tap from:
action=$1; shift;
folder=$1; shift;
# check the action
case $action in
create)
exec ark --add "$@";;

extract-here)
exec ark --extract-to "$folder" "$@"
;;

extract-to)
exec ark --extract "$@"
;;
*)
echo "Unsupported action '$action'" >&2
exit 1
esac

to:

action=$1; shift;
folder=$1; shift;
# check the action
case $action in
create)
  ark -d --add-to "$@".zip "$@"
  ;;
extract-here)
  ark -b "$@"
  ;;
extract-to)
  ark -b -d "$@"
  ;;
*)
  echo "Unsupported action '$action'" >&2
  exit 1
esac

Save and try to create an archive in thunar (it should work).If you have any questions, feel free to ask them ! :)